| Patients with alexithymia have chronic difficulty in recognizing and verbalizing emotions, are concrete in their thinking, and have a reduced capacity for fantasy. |
| As a closing note, any mental health practitioner, whether employed in a school or a non-school setting, should understand the subject of alexithymia and its alleged occurence in boys. |
| Alexithymia is characterized by, among other things, a difficulty in identifying and verbalizing emotions. |
| A multiple regression analysis was conducted with the dependent variable being the extent of stenosis, and the independent variables being the alexithymia, gender, and age. |
| Alexithymia is a personality construct characterized by a deficit in the cognitive processing and regulation of emotion. |
| The authors emphasize that alexithymia is conceptualized as a dimensional construct, one that is distributed normally in the general population. |
