Emotional Intelligence as a Predictive Variable of Alexithymia Among Students with Hearing Impairments | ||
| College of Special Education Journal | ||
| Volume 4, Issue 5, September 2025, Pages 411-478 PDF (1.52 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research papers and studies. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/csej.2025.422693.1060 | ||
| Author | ||
| Amany Ghareeb Abd El azez* | ||
| Suze university | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current research aims to study the relationship between alexithymia and emotional intelligence, and the possibility of predicting alexithymia among students with hearing impairments, based on the level of emotional intelligence, in light of the importance of emotional intelligence as an influential factor in the psychological and social adaptation of this group. The researcher used the descriptive correlational approach, and the research community consisted of secondary school students at the School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Suez Governorate, where the number of members of the basic sample amounted to (50) male and female students. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the modified Scott Emotional Intelligence Scale were applied, after verifying their psychometric properties of the scales, on a standardized sample of (102) male and female students from secondary school students at schools for the deaf and hard of hearing in Ismailia and Port Said Governorates. The research results showed the existence of a negative and statistically significant correlation between alexithymia and emotional intelligence among students with hearing disabilities at a significance level of (0.01). The results also indicated that the degree of alexithymia could be predicted through the level of emotional intelligence. The results did not show any statistically significant differences in alexithymia or emotional intelligence attributable to the variables of gender or degree of disability (moderate-severe). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Emotional; Intelligence; Alexithymia; Hearing; Impairment | ||
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