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The Structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): A Meta-Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- On the Structure of Self-Compassion: A Meta-Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Self-Compassion Scale.Assessment · 2026Pooled it
- Getting Connected to M-Health Technologies through a Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Coloring-Based Serious Game in Chinese College Students With Alexithymia: Prospective Longitudinal Exploratory Mixed Methods Study.JMIR serious games · 2026Article
- Associations Between Facets of Pathological Personality Traits and Alexithymia: The Roles of Detachment and Negative Affect.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Mentalizing under stress and psychotic experiences: An experience sampling study.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
- Predictive Discriminant Validity of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: Incremental Prediction of Emotion Regulation Beyond Psychological Distress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Is a Constricted Imaginal Capacity a Component of the Alexithymia Construct? A Factor Analytic Exploration in a Clinically Enriched Sample.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluating differences in latent means across studies: Extending meta-analytic confirmatory factor analysis with the analysis of means.Research synthesis methods · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and Psychological Profile in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Clinical and Immunological Correlates.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Discriminant Validity of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire in Relation to Psychological Distress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Meta-analyzing correlation matrices in the presence of hierarchical effect size multiplicity.Research synthesis methods · 2025Review
- Affective abstraction predicts variation in alexithymia, depression, and autism spectrum quotient.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Emotional Skills and Nursing Training: A Study on Italian Students and a TRI-COM-Based Educational Model.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Alexithymia and Impaired Mentalization: Evidence from Self-, Informant-, and Meta-Perception Ratings on the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
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- Different artificial neural networks for predicting burnout risk in Italian anesthesiologists.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Alexithymia Based on Electroencephalogram (EEG)-A Mechanistic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Expressive Suppression of Emotions in Bulimia Nervosa: An Electroencephalography Study.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Alexithymia: Toward an Experimental, Processual Affective Science with Effective Interventions.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Alexithymia is defined as the inability of persons to describe their emotional states, to identify the feelings of others, and a utilitarian type of thinking. The most popular instrument to assess alexithymia is the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Despite its widespread use, an ongoing controversy pertains to its internal structure. The TAS-20 was originally constructed to capture three different factors, but several studies suggested different factor solutions, including bifactor models and models with a method factor for the reversely keyed items. The present study examined the dimensionality of the TAS-20 using summary data of 88 samples from 62 studies (total
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