Comparison of 26-Item and 20-Item Versions of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale for Psychiatric Outpatients

This study compared the 20-item revised Toronto Alexithymia Scale with the 26-item version for 257 psychiatric outpatients. Scores on the 20-item version significantly correlated with those on the 26-item inventory even when controlled for depressed mood. Furthermore, the 20-item scale showed greater internal consistency. Factor analysis for both versions indicated three subfactors but the factors in the TAS-20 accounted for greater common variance (92%) than for the factors in the TAS-26 (78%). The total variance accounted for by these factors on the TAS-20 (45%) was also greater than for the TAS-26 (38%)

Alexithymia · Internal consistency · Item analysis · Mood · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio · Short Forms · Toronto Alexithymia Scale · Variance (accounting · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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  Open Access•Graeme J Taylor, David Ryan et al.•Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics•2010

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