M.A. Thesis:

Relationship between Resilience and Responsibility with Alexithymia in female elementary school teachers in Sabzevar City

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between resilience and responsibility with Alexithymia in female elementary school teachers in Sabzevar. The statistical population of this study included all female elementary school teachers in Sabzevar in the academic year 1398-99 that according to the announcement of education, the number of these people was about 2000 people and according to Morgan table, the number of sample people was 340 people and they were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Research data were collected through Connor & Davidson Resilience Questionnaire(2003),Toronto Alexithymia Questionnaire(1986) and Standard Accountability Questionnaire(1987). Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics techniques have been used to analyze the data, respectively. The research findings were analyzed using SPSS software and inferential statistical techniques such as significant correlation coefficient and multivariate regression. The results showed that predictor variables (resilience and responsibility) can significantly predict the criterion variable (Alexithymia) which is a negative predictor for resilience and positive for accountability. According to the result, it should be said that the factors related to Alexithymia are known and considered. The results also showed that the relationship between responsibility and emotional malaise and its components is positive and significant and the relationship between resilience and malaise is negative.

Keywords: xithymia, resilience, responsibility, teachers