Abstract:Alexithymia refers to a lack of words for feelings and is considered to be a personality trait, leaving a person at risk for psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders. A reliable measure of alexithymia, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 comprises three factors which reflect the affective, cognitive and behavioural characteristics of the disorder: difficulty in identifying emotion, difficulty in describing emotion and externally oriented thinking. The construct is associated with low positive affectivity (PA) and … Show more
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