To study the differences in levels of alexithymia, depresion, anxiety and socioeconomic status between a sample of adolescents diagnosed with ICD-10 Persistent Somatoform Pain Disorder N=120 and healthy adolescents controls N=240, and further to survey the method of family conflicts resolution in the somatizing adolescents.Using the Toronto alexithymia scale and Hospital anxiety and Depresion scale and questionary to the subjects and their parents to assess each family's SES and method of conflict resolution. The rate of alexithymia in somatizing adolescents was 69,2percent, which was significantly higher than inhealthy controls(22,9percent, p<o.001). Similarly the rate of anxiety was significantly higher in the somatizers(61,6percent) versus controls(23,3percent, p<0.0010.The method of conflict resolution in the families of somatizing adolescents was more often by quarreling or fighting(6,7percent), silence or not solving the problem at all(44,1percent), and rarely by discussion(17,6percent).