The Constructive Model for the Relationships between Suicidal Ideation, Alexithymia, and Social Anxiety among University Students

The research aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between Suicidal ideation, Alexithymia, and social anxiety among university students, the possibility of predicting social anxiety through students’ scores on the suicidal ideation, Alexithymia scale, detect the differences of Suicidal Thinking, Alexithymia, and social anxiety among university students by reaction by kind and specialty, and reach a structural model that illustrates the relationships of influence and vulnerability and the paths that exist between Suicidal ideation, Alexithymia, and social anxiety among university students, The research sample consisted of (1049) students (344 male and 705 female) from Kafr El-Sheikh University, their age ranged between (18-24) years, with an average of (20.78) years, and a standard deviation of (±1.59). The research tools were Suicidal ideation scale, Alexithymia scale, and social anxiety scale (all prepared by/ the researcher), The research results revealed that there is a positive correlation between Suicidal ideation, Alexithymia, and social anxiety among university students, the possibility of predicting prosperity social anxiety through students’ scores on measures of Suicidal ideation and Alexithymia, and there is a statistically significant effect according to reaction between kind (males and females) and specialty (literary and scientific) on the Suicidal ideation, and some sup-dimensions of Alexithymia, and social anxiety, also reaching a structural model explain the causal relations between  Suicidal ideation, Alexithymia, and social anxiety among university students.