The 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. III. Reliability and factorial validity in a community population.

By James D. A. Parker, G. Taylor, R. Bagby. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2003

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Alexithymia and levels of processing: Evidence for an overall deficit in remembering emotion words (2006, background): “This possibility is relatively unlikely, however, as reports of negative correlations between the TAS-20 and educational level are of low magnitude (Parker et al., 2003), and the sample in this study was restricted to university students, with the assumption that this group is preselected on verbal ”
Trait Mindfulness in Relation to Emotional Self-Regulation and Executive Function (2014, background): “2006) as well as nonclinical (O’Brien et al. 2008; Parker et al. 2003) samples: difficulty identifying feelings (DIF; e.”
Measuring Changes in Emotion During Psychotherapy: Conceptual and Methodological Issues (2007, methodology): “Modest associations between age and TAS-20 scores, and education and TAS-20 scores have also been reported (Parker et al., 2003a), such that lower educational attainment is associated with greater TAS-20 scores (i.e., less emotional awareness) and greater age is associated with lower TAS-20 scores…”