Comparative study of the family emotional quality, alexithymia, temperament, and character of the girls attempting suicide with normal girls

This study was conducted to comparison of the family emotional quality, alexithymia, temperament and character of the girls attempting suicide with normal girls. The method of the study was causal-comparative. 70 girls consisted of attempted suicide and normal girls (35 girl attempted suicide and 35 normal girls)were selected as a sample of study by purposive sampling method. The sample member were residing in Gorgan and In the fall of 2016 were reffered to the emergency part of the hospitals of this city. The data were gathered by applying questionnaires of Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Joe Byrne family's emotional and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) and were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance coefficient (MANOVA). The results of multivariate analysis of variance on subtracted scores of subscales of temperament and character, alexithymia and social-emotional atmosphere in girls attempted suicide and normal individuals showed that all Manova tests (Pilaei effect F=0.721, lambda Wilkes F=0.279, Hotelling effect F=2.586, root largest error F=2.586) are significant at (P