Social:Toronto Alexithymia Scale
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Toronto Alexithymia Scale | |
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Medical diagnostics | |
Purpose | measure of deficiency in understanding, processing emotions |
The Toronto Alexithymia Scale is a measure of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.[1] It was developed in 1986[2] and later revised, removing some of the items. The current version has twenty statements rated on a five-point Likert scale.
The reliability and validity of the TAS-20 was established by a series of articles by R. Michael Bagby et al.[3]
It has been researched extensively.[4]
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References
- ↑ Ciarrochi, J.; Bilich, L. (2006). "Process measures of potential relevance to ACT".
- ↑ Taylor, Graeme J.; Ryan, David; Bagby, R. Michael (1986). "Toward the development of a new self-report alexithymia scale". Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 44: 191–199. doi:10.1159/000287912.
- ↑ Bagby, R.Michael; Parker, James D.A.; Taylor, Graeme J. (1994). "The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure". Journal of Psychosomatic Research 38 (1): 23–32. doi:10.1016/0022-3999(94)90005-1. ISSN 0022-3999. PMID 8126686.
- ↑ Taylor, Graeme J.; Bagby, R. Michael; Yyan, David P.; Parker, James D. A.; Doody, Kenneth F.; Keefe, Peter. "Criterion Validity of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale". Psychosomatic Medicine 50: 500–509. doi:10.1097/00006842-198809000-00006.