Alexitimia en estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería Civil y Artes Escénicas de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Artes en la Universidad de Cuenca marzo-agosto 2022

Abstract

The university student must stay in constant study and meet the various demands of the University, such as linking with society, autonomous work, and research; therefore, it is important to know their emotional state, since an emotional affectation can generate psychological affectations. Alexithymia is the inability to verbally express one's own and other’s emotions or feelings, in effect it generates an alteration in the affectivity of those who suffer from it. For this reason, this research described the levels of alexithymia in university students of the Civil Engineering and Performing Arts careers at the University of Cuenca in the period March-August 2022. The research was non-experimental, with a descriptive approach and cut in addition, the Spanish adaptation of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale TAS20 was used in 220 students through a stratified probabilistic sampling and the SPSS version 28 program was used for statistical analyses. It was found that Civil Engineering students presented higher levels of alexithymia than Performing Arts students, on the other hand, women have higher levels of high alexithymia compared to men and the predominant factor in the participants was the thought factor externally oriented and the age with the highest level of alexithymia were 18-20 years of age. With the results, the levels of alexithymia presented by students in the different academic cycles were demonstrated to the university community, especially in Civil Engineering and Performing Arts, and the results were contrasted with other investigations on alexithymia.