Effects of rational emotive behavior therapy on alexithymia, anxiety, depression and sleep quality of older people in nursing homes: a quasi-experimental study

Table 3 Correlation between decreased scores of alexithymia dimensions and improvement in sleep quality scores before and after rational emotive behavior therapy among older people (n = 42)

	1	2	3	4
1 Difficulty identifying feelings	-
2 Difficulty describing feelings	0.512^***	-
3 Externally-oriented thinking	0.025	0.361^**	-
4 Alexithymia	0.649^***	0.832^***	0.560^***	-
5 Sleep quality	0.455^***	0.316^**	0.277^*	0.441^***

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