The paper deals with the integrable massive models of quantum field theory. It is shown that generalized statistics of physical particles is closely connected with the invariance under quantum groups. This invariance provides the possibility to construct quasi-local operators (parafermions) possessing generalized statistics which interpolates the physical particles. For the particular examples of SG, RSG models and scaling 3-state Potts model the parafermions are described completely (all their matrix elements in the space of states are presented). © 1990 Springer-Verlag.