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Importance of considering interoceptive abilities in alexithymia assessment.
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- The Structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): A Meta-Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis.Assessment · 2022Pooled it
- Minimal Impact of Sensation-Related Items on the Association Between Alexithymia and Self-Report Measures of Interoception.Personality and mental health · 2025Article
- Rumination and alexithymia serially mediate the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety symptoms in Chinese university students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Assessing alexithymia in chronic pain: psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Validation of the French version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire: toward a way to assess alexisomia.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Assessment of the mind-body connection: preliminary psychometric evidence for a new self-report questionnaire.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Externally oriented thinking style increases primary health care use in adolescence.European journal of public health · 2023Article
- Disentangling interoceptive abilities in alexithymia.Psychological research · 2022Article
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- Interoceptive Abilities in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies have shown that people with high alexithymia scores have decreased interoceptive abilities, which can be associated with psychological and physical disorders. Early assessments of the alexithymia trait included the evaluation of these abilities through the dimension measuring the difficulty in identifying and distinguishing between feelings and bodily sensations (the 26-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale; TAS-26). The revised version of the TAS, the TAS-20, contains a three-factor solution that does not involve a dimension assessing interoceptive abilities. However, the three items allowing the evaluation of these abilities are still present in the TAS-20. In this context, we hypothesized that the 3 items which assess interoceptive abilities in the TAS-20 should constitute an independent factor. In addition to exploring the internal structure of the TAS-20, we examined its external validity by assessing the relationships between the new factors and self-reported measures of personality trait and psychological and physical health.
methodTwo online studies (
resultsOur results suggest the presence of a new latent factor in the assessment of alexithymia that reflects interoceptive abilities specifically related to health and personality trait outcomes. In accordance with the results and the literature, it seems important to include an assessment of interoceptive abilities when considering the evaluation of alexithymia. The next step would be to develop a valid measure of these abilities.
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