TAS {FactorCopula}

Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS)

Description

The Toronto Alexithymia Scale is the most utilized measure of alexithymia in empirical research and is composed of d = 20 items that can be subdivided into G = 3 non-overlapping groups: d_1 = 7 items to assess difficulty identifying feelings (DIF), d_2 = 5 items to assess difficulty describing feelings (DDF) and d_3 = 8 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.