Adaptación española de la escala de Alexitimia de Toronto (TAS-20).
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Alexithymia refers to a specific disturbance in emotional processing that is manifested by difficulties in identifying and verbalizing feelings, and by a tendency to focus on an amplify the somatic sensations accompanying emotional arousal, that has been associated with a variety of psychosomatics and psychiatric disorders. This study was conducted to the Spanish version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in a sample of 370 college students. The TAS-20 demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and a three-factor structure theoretically congruent with the alexithymia construct. These factors are quite similar to those found through factor analysis of the TAS-20 for the Canadian, German and USA samples. This paper describes a study that further evaluates the convergent validity of the scale by examining its relationship with measures of personality traits theoretically related to the alexithymia construct. We conclude that this Spanish adaptation of the TAS-20 is a psychometrically sound measure of the alexithymia
Source: Clínica y Salud
Author: Francisco Martínez‐Sánchez
Institution: Universidad de Murcia
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2946821193