Possibilities of studying the factor structure of alexithymic space

The aim of the research is to study the factor structure of alexithymic space. The article presents the results of our study of alexithymic space factor structure. Alexithymia should be studied not as an isolated psychological characteristics, but, if it is highly expressed, as a forming factor of special psychological space, that includes high anxiety, aggressive and hostile reactions and low empathic abilities. This approach determined our choice of research methods. The sample is represented by 384 volunteers of prepubescent and preadult age with no somatic pathologies. The psychodiagnostic research was performed using the Toronto alexi-thymics scale (TAS), the Characterological Questionnaire by Schmieschek H., the Scale of Anxiety by Taylor G., the test by Bass A. and Darki A., the test of empathic ability by Yusupov I. M., the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the method of expert assessments to determine the level of education of the volunteers. We used the factor analysis and the determination of the differences accuracy by Student's t-criterion for statistical processing of the obtained data. We divided the factorized parameters into eight groups of semantic factors that explain 60 per cent of all sense dispersion. They are "Shown Aggression", "Hypo-Empathic Feelings", "Extroverted Hypertymia", "Age aspects", "Ecstatic Instability", "Anxious Feelings", "Hostile Offense", "Suspicious Hostility". Alexithymic space, that includes massive anxious feelings, aggressive and hostile reactions of different modality and empathic difficulties, forms the basis for the violation of a person's emotional state and forces the risks of changes in his psychosomatic health. Psy-choprophylactic measures, organized within the framework of the preventive approach and involving the impact on the components of alexithymic space, can be more successful than the direct impact on the alexithymic manifestations.

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