title: Assessment of alexithymia: psychometric properties of the toronto alexithymia scale (tas) - a preliminary report.
abstract: The present study was aimed at assessing the utility of a scale to measure alexithymia in the Indian cultural set up. Vernacular version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) a newly devised self report alexithymia scale was assessed for its psychometric properties in a sample of 116 normal subjects. The scale was found to have adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Factor analysis with varimax procedure yielded a four factor solution consistent with the construct of alexithymia. The results of the study indicate that the TAS could be a potentially useful instrument to assess alexithymia in our cultural set up.
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore - 560 029.
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Sriram
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Gopinath
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Subbakrishna