The relationship of alexithymia with personality differentiation and narcissism in depresion students in dormitories in center of Tehran city of year 1397

The purpose of this study was to relationship of alexithymia with personality differentiation and narcissism in depresion students in dormitories in center of Tehran city of year 1397. The descriptive- correlation method was used. The statistical population consists of all the depresion students in dormitories in center of Tehran city of year 2018-2019. In this study, 100 depresion students by convenience sampling method were selected as samples. In this research and they were asked to fill in twenty-item Toronto alexithymia scale Bagby, Parker & Taylor (1994), differentiation of self inventory—short form of Drake, Murdock, Marszalek & Barber (2015), narcissistic Personality Inventory og Raskin & Terry (1988) and manual for the BDI-II of Beck, Steer & Brown (1996). The data were analyzed by tests of Pearson correlation and multivariate regression. Findings showed that there was a negative and significant correlation between s alexithymia with personality differentiation (P<0/01). There was a positive and significant correlation between s alexithymia with narcissism (P<0/01). Regression analyses also revealed that 54/5 of variance of personality differentiation and 64/1 of variance of narcissism was explained by alexithymia. This study confirmed the significant contribution of s alexithymia on personality differentiation and narcissism in depresion students.