the relationship of dissociation experiences and alexithymia with eating attitudes in female students of ahvaz university

Background: this study aimed to clarify the relationship between dissociation experience, and alexithymia and eating attitudes in female students of ahvaz university. materials and methods: the present study had a cross sectional design. overall, 325 female undergraduate students were selected by multi-phase random clustering and completed the following rating scales; eating attitudes test-26 (eat-26), alexithymia questionnaire (tas-20), dissociative experiences scale (des-28). data analysis was done using the pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. results: with the pearson method, we found a correlation between alexithymia and eating attitudes (p = 11.3), and a significant positive correlation between dissociative experiences and eating attitudes (p = 36.8) was also found. the multi-variable correlation coefficient for alexithymia and dissociative experiences with eating attitudes in female students was respectively mr = 37.0 and mr = 11.3, and f ratio was respectively equal to 36.7 and 2.86, which was significant at p = 0.001 and p = 0.092. conclusions: this study highlights the association between eating attitudes, and dissociation experiences and alexithymia, yet dissociation experiences were more relevant and a stronger predictor for eating attitudes.