Twenty-five years with the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.109940
Abstract: OBJECTIVE Twenty-five years ago, this journal published two articles reporting the development and initial validation of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Since then the literature on alexithymia has burgeoned with the vast majority of… read more here.
Keywords: alexithymia scale; item toronto; five years; toronto alexithymia ... See more keywords
The Development and Evaluation of a Brief Form of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS-BF)
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DOI: 10.1037/cou0000312
Abstract: The current study extended prior work on the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a unidimensional measure of some men’s limitations in expressing emotion that results from gender-based socialization informed by the masculine norm of restrictive… read more here.
Keywords: alexithymia scale; normative male; alexithymia; male alexithymia ... See more keywords
Machine Learning Increases Diagnosticity in Psychometric Evaluation of Alexithymia in Fibromyalgia
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DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2019.00319
Abstract: Here, we report an investigation on the accuracy of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, a measure to assess alexithymia, a multidimensional construct often associate to fibromyalgia. Two groups of participants, patients with fibromyalgia (n = 38),… read more here.
Keywords: patients fibromyalgia; alexithymia scale; machine learning; alexithymia ... See more keywords