Twenty-five years with the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale

RM Bagby, JDA Parker, GJ Taylor - Journal of psychosomatic research, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Twenty-five years ago, this journal published two articles reporting the
development and initial validation of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Since …

A meta-analytic review of the relationships between the five-factor model and DSM-IV-TR personality disorders: A facet level analysis

DB Samuel, TA Widiger - Clinical psychology review, 2008 - Elsevier
Theory and research have suggested that the personality disorders contained within the
American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

[BOOK][B] Mentalizing in clinical practice

JG Allen, P Fonagy, AW Bateman - 2008 - books.google.com
Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental
states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self …

The emotion regulation questionnaire: psychometric properties in general community samples

DA Preece, R Becerra, K Robinson… - Journal of personality …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report measure of 2
emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. It is a …

Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being

V Vine, RL Boyd, JW Pennebaker - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
To date we know little about natural emotion word repertoires, and whether or how they are
associated with emotional functioning. Principles from linguistics suggest that the richness or …

[HTML][HTML] Child maltreatment and alexithymia: A meta-analytic review.

J Ditzer, EY Wong, RN Modi, M Behnke… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Alexithymia refers to difficulties identifying and describing one's emotions. Growing evidence
suggests that alexithymia is a key transdiagnostic risk factor. Despite its clinical importance …

Establishing the theoretical components of alexithymia via factor analysis: Introduction and validation of the attention-appraisal model of alexithymia

D Preece, R Becerra, A Allan, K Robinson… - … and individual differences, 2017 - Elsevier
Alexithymia is an important mental health construct, but there is continuing debate regarding
its definition and measurement. We attempt to resolve this definitional uncertainty in two …

Alexithymia: Towards an experimental, processual affective science with effective interventions

O Luminet, KA Nielson - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Alexithymia is a multi-dimensional personality trait involving difficulty identifying feelings,
difficulty describing feelings, and an externally oriented thinking style. Poor fantasy life is …

Age is strongly associated with alexithymia in the general population

AK Mattila, JK Salminen, T Nummi… - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We studied the prevalence of alexithymia, its distribution in different age
groups in a wide age range, its association with sociodemographic and health-related …

Dealing with feelings: characterization of trait alexithymia on emotion regulation strategies and cognitive-emotional processing

M Swart, R Kortekaas, A Aleman - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Alexithymia, or “no words for feelings”, is a personality trait which is associated
with difficulties in emotion recognition and regulation. It is unknown whether this deficit is …