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Toronto Alexithymia Scale
About: Toronto Alexithymia Scale is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1601 publications have been published within this topic receiving 66398 citations.
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TL;DR: Addressing shortcomings of the self-report Toronto Alexithymia Scale, two studies were conducted to reconstruct the item domain and resulted in the development of a new twenty-item version of the scale--the TAS-20.
4,285 citations
TL;DR: Evidence of convergent and discriminant validity of the TAS-20 was demonstrated in samples of university students by a pattern of correlations with the scales of the NEO Personality Inventory and separate measures of psychological mindedness and need-for-cognition that was consistent with theoretical predictions.
2,164 citations
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28 Feb 1997TL;DR: The development and regulation of affects Graeme Taylor, Michael Bagby and James Parker as mentioned in this paper, along with the neurobiology of emotion, affect regulation and alexithymia.
Abstract: Foreword James S. Grotstein Acknowledgements Introduction Graeme Taylor 1. The development and regulation of affects Graeme Taylor, Michael Bagby and James Parker 2. Affect dysregulation and alexithymia Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor 3. Measurement and validation of the alexithymia construct Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor 4. Relations between alexithymia, personality, and affects James Parker and Graeme Taylor 5. The neurobiology of emotion, affect regulation and alexithymia James Parker and Graeme Taylor 6. Somatoform disorders Graeme Taylor 7. Anxiety and depressive disorders and a note on personality disorders Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor 8. Substance use disorders Graeme Taylor 9. Eating disorders Graeme Taylor 10. Affects and alexithymia in medical illness and disease Graeme Taylor 11. Treatment considerations Graeme Taylor 12. Future directions James Parker, Michael Bagby and Graeme Taylor References Index.
1,409 citations
TL;DR: Preliminary results suggest that the Toronto Alexithymia Scale may be used as a clinical screening device with psychiatric and general medical patient populations and demonstrated adequate split-half and test-retest reliability.
Abstract: Addressing methodological problems in the development of existing scales for measuring alexithymia, this study reports the development of a new self-report scale. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) was devised with concern for theoretical congruence with the alexithymia construct, independence of social desirability response bias, and internal consistency. Initially, 41 items were administered to 542 college students. Twenty-six items meeting preestablished psychometric guidelines were retained. Factor analysis yielded four interpretable factors, all consistent with the construct. The scale demonstrated adequate split-half and test-retest reliability, and scores were not significantly associated with age, education, and socioeconomic status. These preliminary results suggest that the TAS may be used as a clinical screening device with psychiatric and general medical patient populations.
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TL;DR: The findings support the use of the TAS-20 in cross-cultural research, and suggest that alexithymia may be a universal trait that transcends cultural differences.
754 citations