Table 2.

Partial correlations (corrected for gender) between alexithymia, coping styles, and depression and interpersonal problems scores (n = 441)

	Depression	Interpersonal problems
Non-alexithymic	-0.48	-0.056
Low-alexithymic	00.39	00.43
High-alexithymic	00.57	00.64
Task-oriented coping	-0.59	-0.67
Emotion oriented coping	00.48	00.57
Avoidance-oriented coping	00.42	00.64