“Alexitimia y depresión en personas privadas de libertad”

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between the alexithymia and the depression of the people deprived of liberty of the Center for Regional Social Rehabilitation Sierra Central Norte, population that will be the direct beneficiary, since the information obtained will allow the development of psychological programs that will contribute to the process of rehabilitation of the criminal population, in addition to the favoring for future research. The study was made up of forty people, who were evaluated through the Alexithymia Toronto Scale Consensus for Latin America, (LAC-TAS-20) and The Depression Inventory by Beck BDI–II, to evaluate the presence of alexithymia and the levels of depression respectively, for the analysis of the data, we used the statistical program SSPS and through the Chi-square statistical test was obtained a value less than the probability level (0.00 < p 0,05), verifying the existence of relationship between the two variables. The data obtained suggest that is necessary to implement psychological programs that contribute to the process of rehabilitation of the prison population and so to ensure a positive reintegration into society.