Nataliya Cvetkova

The article examines alexithymia as a specific personality construct and its manifestations in adolescents with signs of mathematical talent. According to a comparative study, adolescents with a high level of academic achievement in mathematics and high results in mathematical competitions of various levels are more likely to have difficulty identifying feelings. They focus more on the external type of thinking, and have less developed penetrating ability of empathy and higher values of alexithymia scales.

The article analyzes the psychological protection of adolescents with mental retardation who are brought up in a boarding school. The comparison of the profiles of psychological protection of a group of teenagers and adolescents with delayed development who live in families and enrolled in secondary school.