ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT

The present study was aimed at assessing the utility of a scale to measure alexithymia in the Indian cultural set up. Vernacular version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) a newly devised self report alexithymia scale was assessed for its psychometric properties in a sample of 116 normal subject...

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Autores principales: Sriram, T.G., Chaturvedi, S.K., Gopinath, P.S., Subbakrishna, D.K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1987
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927227
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Chaturvedi, S.K.
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Subbakrishna, D.K.
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description The present study was aimed at assessing the utility of a scale to measure alexithymia in the Indian cultural set up. Vernacular version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) a newly devised self report alexithymia scale was assessed for its psychometric properties in a sample of 116 normal subjects. The scale was found to have adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Factor analysis with varimax procedure yielded a four factor solution consistent with the construct of alexithymia. The results of the study indicate that the TAS could be a potentially useful instrument to assess alexithymia in our cultural set up.
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spelling pubmed-31724602011-09-16 ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT Sriram, T.G. Chaturvedi, S.K. Gopinath, P.S. Subbakrishna, D.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The present study was aimed at assessing the utility of a scale to measure alexithymia in the Indian cultural set up. Vernacular version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) a newly devised self report alexithymia scale was assessed for its psychometric properties in a sample of 116 normal subjects. The scale was found to have adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Factor analysis with varimax procedure yielded a four factor solution consistent with the construct of alexithymia. The results of the study indicate that the TAS could be a potentially useful instrument to assess alexithymia in our cultural set up. Medknow Publications 1987 /pmc/articles/PMC3172460/ /pubmed/21927227 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT
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title_full ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT
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title_full_unstemmed ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT
title_short ASSESSMENT OF ALEXITHYMIA: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE (TAS) - A PRELIMINARY REPORT
title_sort assessment of alexithymia: psychometric properties of the toronto alexithymia scale (tas) - a preliminary report
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