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Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS)
Description
The Toronto Alexithymia Scale is the most utilized measure of alexithymia in empirical research and is composed of items that can be subdivided into
non-overlapping groups:
items to assess difficulty identifying feelings (DIF),
items to assess difficulty describing feelings (DDF) and
items to assess externally oriented thinking (EOT).
Students were 17 to 25 years old and 58% of them were female and 42% were male. They were asked to respond to each item using one of K = 5 categories: “1 = completely disagree”, “2 = disagree”, “3 = neutral”, “4 = agree”, “5 = completely agree”.
Usage
data(TAS)
Format
A data frame with 1925 observations on the following 20 items:
DIF
items: 1,3,6,7,9,13,14.
DDF
items: 2,4,11,12,17.
EOT
items: 5,8,10,15,16,18,19,20.
Source
Briganti, G. and Linkowski, P. (2020). Network approach to items and domains from the toronto alexithymia scale. Psychological Reports, 123, 2038–2052.
Williams, D. and Mulder, J. (2020). BGGM: Bayesian Gaussian Graphical Models. R package version 1.0.0.