title: Cross-cultural alexithymia: development and validation of a Hindi translation of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale.
abstract: The possibility that alexithymia may be a culture-bound construct was evaluated by developing a Hindi version of the Twenty-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and assessing its psychometric properties in a sample of 285 normal young adults in India. The Hindi version of the scale (TAS-20-H) showed excellent cross-language equivalence with the English version. In addition, the TAS-20-H demonstrated adequate internal consistency, good test-retest reliability, and a three-factor structure consistent with the three-factor model of the original scale.
authors.affiliation: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Mandal
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating