Toronto Alexithymia Scale.
TAS-20
Alexithymia - 3 factors: Difficulty Identifying Feelings (DIF), Difficulty Describing Feelings (DDF), Externally Oriented Thinking (EOT)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 20 items. 5-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree); 5 reverse-keyed items (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 30+ languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, ZH, JA, KO, AR, RU, Finnish, etc.); the most-translated alexithymia measure; meta-analytic CFA across languages
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Bagby, R. M., Parker, J. D. A., & Taylor, G. J. (1994). The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale - I. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3999(94)90005-1
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