Assessing alexithymia and emotional awareness: relations between measures in a German non-clinical sample.

Abstract:

:The aim of this study was to evaluate psychometric properties and relations between two different methods of measuring alexithymia and one measure of emotional awareness in a German non-clinical sample. The 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia (TSIA), and the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS), which is a performance-based measure of emotional awareness, were administered to 84 university students. Both internal reliability and inter-rater reliability for the TSIA were acceptable. Results from exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on all measures supported a three factorial solution previously obtained in an American sample using multiple methods of alexithymia and emotional ability measurement. In our three factor model direct self (TAS-20), direct other (TSIA), and indirect self (LEAS) measures were differentiated. The convergent validity of the TSIA was supported by a significant correlation with the LEAS. Our findings suggest that future research on alexithymia and emotional awareness can benefit from the use of a multi-method approach and should include objective measures.

journal_name

Compr Psychiatry

journal_title

Comprehensive psychiatry

authors

Lichev V,Rufer M,Rosenberg N,Ihme K,Grabe HJ,Kugel H,Donges US,Kersting A,Suslow T

doi

10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.12.013

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-05-01 00:00:00

pages

952-9

issue

4

eissn

0010-440X

issn

1532-8384

pii

S0010-440X(13)00379-9

journal_volume

55

pub_type

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