Alexythymia and mental rigidity rates observed in magadan adolescents with signs of anxiety disorder

Adolescents of Magadan city (762 schoolchildren aged 10-17 years) underwent screening examination to explore them in the aspect of anxiety disorder. The study revealed 44 children with such disorders that made up 6 % of all the examinees. The schoolchildren of the 6 th-11 th grades which proved to have anxiety disorder, demonstrated alexythymia, mental rigidity and disturbed neuropsychiatric adaptation. As a result, higher expenses of the body resources were found in their school activities. The correlation analysis testified that the studied mental characteristics serve as negative factors that supplement each other in forming anxiety disorders observed in the children's population of the North.