الإكتئاب وعلاقته بالألكسثيميا لدى عينة من المراهقين
The study aimed to identify the presence of statistically significant differences according to the variables of gender (male / female), educational stage (preparatory / secondary), and the interaction between them on the scale of depression, and the scale of alexithymia and its dimensions in a sample of adolescents. It also aimed to reveal the existence of a statistically significant relationship between depression and alexithymia in a sample of adolescents. The study was conducted on a sample of (300) teenage male and female students, whose ages ranged between (14-18 years), with an average age of (16.17 years), and a standard deviation of (1.41 years), and the Beck depression scale was applied to them. Prepared by Aaron Beck and Steer (1966), Arabized by Abdel Khalek (1998), and the Toronto Scale of Alexithymia prepared by Bagby et al (1994), Arabized by the researcher. The results showed that there are no statistically significant differences according to gender and the interaction between the variables of gender and educational stage in depression, while there are statistically significant differences according to educational stage in depression, and there are statistically significant differences according to gender in alexithymia, and there are no statistically significant differences according to educational stage. And the interaction between the variables of gender and educational stage in alexithymia, and the existence of a statistically significant relationship between depression and alexithymia in a sample of adolescents. (Published abstract)