Table 1.
Mean task-oriented coping, emotion oriented coping, and avoidance-oriented coping scores of the adolescents who classified themselves as high–alexithymic, low-alexithymic, and non-alexithymic
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Attachment style
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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High-alexithymic
(n = 84) |
Low-alexithymic
(n = 146) |
Non-alexithymic
(n = 191) |
F | P | Post-hoc Scheffe test | |
| Mean (± SD) | Mean (±SD) | Mean (±SD) | ||||
| Task-oriented coping | 048.21 (± 7.41) | 049.74 (± 08.36) | 058.36 (± 9.360) | 20.41 | 0.001 | Non > Low & High |
| Emotion-oriented coping | 051.28 (± 8.21) | 045.65 (± 07.64) | 043.21 (± 6.54) | 12.21 | 0.001 | High > Low & Non |
| Avoidance-oriented coping | 054.74 (± 9.59) | 051.94 (± 10.32) | 045.65 (± 8.79) | 14.65 | 0.001 | High & Low > Non |
| Depression | 041.36 (± 6.35) | 028.39 (± 08.41) | 017.47 (± 7.64) | 18.36 | 0.001 | Non < Low < High |
| Interpersonal problems | 155.36 (± 12.36) | 120.47 (± 13.65) | 116.28 (± 12.84) | 19.71 | 0.001 | High > Low & Non |