Alexithymia and anxiety: compounded relationships? A psychometric study

S Berthoz, S Consoli, F Perez-Diaz, R Jouvent - European psychiatry, 1999 - cambridge.org
This study is a careful examination of the relationships between different components of the
alexithymia construct and state versus trait anxiety. In order to study the relations between …

Cross‐cultural alexithymia: Development and validation of a Hindi translation of the 20‐item Toronto alexithymia scale

R Pandey, MK Mandal, GJ Taylor… - Journal of clinical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The possibility that alexithymia may be a culture‐bound construct was evaluated by
developing a Hindi version of the Twenty‐Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and assessing its …

Alexithymia, emotion, and somatic complaints

LG Lundh, M Simonsson‐Sarnecki - Journal of personality, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia, by definition, involves difficulties in identifying and describing emotions and has
been assumed to be associated with somatization (ie, a tendency to express psychological …

Factors associated with alexithymia in patients suffering from depression

K Honkalampi, P Saarinen, J Hintikka… - Psychotherapy and …, 1999 - karger.com
Background: We studied the factors associated with alexithymia in 137 depressed
outpatients. Methods: Diagnosis of depression was confirmed by means of the Structured …

Alexithymia and its measurement: confirmatory factor analyses of the 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Bermond–Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire

E Zech, O Luminet, B Rimé… - European Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Alexithymia refers to the difficulties an individual has in experiencing and expressing
feelings. The 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS‐20) and the Bermond–Vorst …

Sociodemographic correlates of alexithymia

RD Lane, L Sechrest, R Riedel - Comprehensive psychiatry, 1998 - Elsevier
The association between alexithymia and sociodemographic variables is not well
understood. Previous studies using the current 20-item and previous 26-item versions of the …

Alexithymia: 25 years of theory and research

GJ Taylor - Emotional expression and health. Advances in theory …, 2004 - books.google.com
Among the various emotion-related constructs that have been associated with health and
disease, alexithymia has the longest history. Formulated by Nemiah et al.(1976) in the mid …

[PDF][PDF] The relationship between the dimensions of alexithymia and the intensity of depression and anxiety.

I Motan, T Gençöz - Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 - researchgate.net
Objective: The aim of the present study was to underline the multidimensional nature of
alexithymia, and to examine the relationship between these dimensions and the intensity of …

Factorial validity of the 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale

JDA Parker, R Michael Bagby, GJ Taylor… - European Journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS‐20) was developed in previous
research to measure a general dimension of alexithymia with three inter correlated factors …

Alexithymia behaves as a personality trait over a 5-year period in Finnish general population

JK Salminen, S Saarijärvi, T Toikka, J Kauhanen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Temporal stability is a basic assumption underlying any personality trait
construct. Previous research on the stability of alexithymia has led to a controversy over …