Validity issues in the assessment of alexithymia related to the developmental stages of emotional cognition and language

We examined developmental aspects of the emotional awareness of adolescents by evaluating their responses to a self-reported questionnaire based on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20). The items of the TAS-20 were modified to make them more understandable by adolescents, and nine new items rel...

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Published in:	BioPsychoSocial medicine Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 12
Main Authors:	Nishimura, Hiroki, Komaki, Gen, Igarashi, Tetsuya, Moriguchi, Yoshiya, Kajiwara, Sohei, Akasaka, Toru
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England BioMed Central Ltd 03-11-2009 BioMed Central BMC
Subjects:	Alexithymia Children & youth Cognition Complications and side effects Emotions Empathy Linguistics Literacy Middle schools Questionnaires Students Studies Teenagers Validity Japan
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