Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire.
PAQ
- What it measures
- Alexithymia at the facet x valence level - Difficulty Identifying Feelings, Difficulty Describing Feelings, Externally Oriented Thinking, each across negative and positive emotions
- Length and format
- 24 (full); PAQ-S short = 6. 7-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Growing set (Persian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, etc.); cross-cultural validation underway/published
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Preece, D., et al. (2018). The Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 132, 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.05.011
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