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 …

Background Depression is associated with problems in social functioning. Impaired
empathic abilities might underlie this association. Empathy is a multidimensional construct …

Abstract The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report measure of 2
emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. It is a …

Objective While it is well known that mental health problems are common consequences of
deadly pandemics, the association with alexithymia is less clear. This study examined this …

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in
particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and …

Alexithymia is an important mental health construct, but there is continuing debate regarding
its definition and measurement. We attempt to resolve this definitional uncertainty in two …

Following recent evidence for a link between interoception, emotion and empathy, we
investigated relationships between these factors in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 26 …

Initially thought of as a unitary ability, empathy has been more recently considered to consist
of 2 components (ie, an affective and a cognitive component). The Basic Empathy Scale …

Neuroscientific research has identified two fundamental components of empathy: shared
emotional representations between self and other, and self–other distinction. The concept of …

Alexithymia is a trait comprising people's ability to focus attention on and accurately
appraise their own emotions. Its assessment is of clinical interest because people who have …