Gender Differences in Alexithymia

Alexithymia is a condition in which individual have difficulty in distinguishing between different emotions, describing feelings and differentiating between physical and emotional sensations .Review suggest that this condition is increasing day by day therefore this study was done to examine the gender differences on various dimensions of alexithymia on college student population. For the purpose, Toronto Alexithymia scale (Taylor, Bagby & Parker, 1994) was used on the participants who were of age between 18 to 25 years with education qualification of at least graduation and above. Statistical analysis done was t-test and the results suggested a significant difference on externally oriented thinking dimension of alexithymia.