Twenty-five years with the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale

RM Bagby, JDA Parker, GJ Taylor - Journal of psychosomatic research, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

The alexithymia construct: a potential paradigm for psychosomatic medicine

GJ Taylor, RM Bagby, JDA Parker - Psychosomatics, 1991 - Elsevier
During the past decade, the alexithymia construct has undergone theoretical refinement and
empirical testing and has evolved into a potential new paradigm for understanding the …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptualizing alexithymia

DA Preece, JJ Gross - Personality and Individual Differences, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the 1970s, psychoanalytic conceptualizations of alexithymia have defined the trait as
having four core facets: difficulties identifying feelings (DIF), difficulties describing feelings …

The emotion regulation questionnaire: psychometric properties in general community samples

DA Preece, R Becerra, K Robinson… - Journal of personality …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Establishing the theoretical components of alexithymia via factor analysis: Introduction and validation of the attention-appraisal model of alexithymia

D Preece, R Becerra, A Allan, K Robinson… - … and individual differences, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure

RM Bagby, JDA Parker, GJ Taylor - Journal of psychosomatic research, 1994 - Elsevier
Addressing shortcomings of the self-report Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), two studies
were conducted to reconstruct the item domain of the scale. The first study resulted in the …

The psychometric assessment of alexithymia: Development and validation of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire

D Preece, R Becerra, K Robinson, J Dandy… - Personality and …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Validity and reliability of the Bermond–Vorst alexithymia questionnaire

HCM Vorst, B Bermond - Personality and individual differences, 2001 - Elsevier
The aim of this research is to establish the validity and reliability of the Bermond–Vorst
Alexithymia Questionnaire (BVAQ). The BVAQ consists of five subscales, each comprising of …

The assessment of alexithymia: a critical review of the literature and a psychometric study of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20

CG Kooiman, P Spinhoven, RW Trijsburg - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2002 - Elsevier
Objective: The objectives were to give an overview of studies on the validity of the Toronto
Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and to present data regarding the validity of the TAS-20 …

Alexithymia and alcohol use disorders: A critical review

FA Thorberg, RMD Young, KA Sullivan, M Lyvers - Addictive behaviors, 2009 - Elsevier
All human beings experience emotion. However a number of individuals have difficulties
recognising, processing and regulating their emotions. This set of emotional “deficits' is …