The role of alexithymia and emotion regulation strategies in predicting chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract

The current study aimed to Identifying the role of alexithymia and emotional regulation strategies in predicting chronic fatigue syndrome. The descriptive, correlational approach was used on a sample of the current study consisting of (N = 334) university students. including [117 males, 227 females], with an average age of (23.1) years, and a standard deviation of (6.6) years, The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al.,1994), and The Arab Scale for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abdel-Khaleq and Al-Dheeb, 2006), and the Emotional Regulation Scale (Gross & John, 2003) were applied to them. The results show that female university students are more likely to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, have a higher rate of alexithymia, and use suppressing the expression of emotion as an emotional regulation strategy more than males, and that alexithymia is the significant variable in predicting chronic fatigue among males and females among the sample members, and that emotional regulation strategies It does not contribute significantly to chronic fatigue in the presence of alexithymia