Comparison of Alexithymia, Self- Compassion and Academic Help Seeking Behavior in Students with and without Specific Learning Disability

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate professor. Department of Educational Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

2 Professor. Department of Educational Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

3 Ph.D. student, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of Current research was to comparative study an alexithymia, self- compassion and academic help seeking behavior in students with and without specific learning disability. The research design was causal-comparative and the research population included all East Azerbaijan’s students with and without specific learning disability in 2019-2020. Using the connivance sampling method, 102 students (included 52 specific learning disability and 57 normal students) were selected and the Neff's self-compassion, the Bagby, parker &Taylor's Toronto alexithymia and the Ryan, pintrich's help-seeking behavior inventories were used to gathering the data. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed that in all three variables, alexitiamia, self-compassion, and academic help seeking behavior, there was a significant difference between two groups. characteristics such as emotional cognitive deficiency, difficulty in recognizing and describing emotions, and externally oriented thinking way, as well as low social emotional adjustment, challenge self-compassion, alexitimia, and help seeking behavior in people with specific learning disability. Developing and implementing of self-compassionate skills, expression of emotion and help-seeking behavior programs are needed.

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