Toronto Alexithymia Scale

Toronto Alexithymia Scale
Purpose	measure of deficiency in understanding, processing emotions

The Toronto Alexithymia Scale is a measure of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.^[1] It was developed in 1986^[2] and later revised, removing some of the items. The current version has twenty statements rated on a five-point Likert scale.

The reliability and validity of the TAS-20 was established by a series of articles by R. Michael Bagby et al.^[3]

It has been researched extensively.^[4]

See also

• Alexithymia

References

1. Ciarrochi, J.; Bilich, L. (2006). "Process measures of potential relevance to ACT".
2. Taylor, Graeme J.; Ryan, David; Bagby, R. Michael (1986). "Toward the development of a new self-report alexithymia scale". Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 44 (4): 191–199. doi:10.1159/000287912. PMID 3837277.
3. Bagby, R.Michael; Parker, James D.A.; Taylor, Graeme J. (1994). "The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 38 (1): 23–32. doi:10.1016/0022-3999(94)90005-1. ISSN 0022-3999. PMID 8126686.
4. Taylor, Graeme J.; Bagby, R. Michael; Yyan, David P.; Parker, James D. A.; Doody, Kenneth F.; Keefe, Peter (1988). "Criterion Validity of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale". Psychosomatic Medicine. 50 (5): 500–509. doi:10.1097/00006842-198809000-00006. PMID 3186893. S2CID 1123413.