Kauhanen J, Julkunen J, Salonen J T
Department of Community Health and General Practice, Kuopio University, Finland.
J Psychosom Res. 1992 Oct;36(7):687-94. doi: 10.1016/0022-3999(92)90058-a.
Alexithymia refers to the difficulties an individual has to experience and express his feelings. Various self-report questionnaires have been introduced to measure alexithymia, but only a few rigorous validity studies of this concept have been carried out in nonclinical populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) in a population sample of 1560 middle-aged men from eastern Finland. The modified version of the TAS applied in this study had a factor structure that matched the previous results and the theoretical concept of alexithymia. Internal consistency of the total TAS scale, as well as the 8 month retest reliability, were adequate. The TAS correlated fairly well with an interview-based evaluation of alexithymic features. The results suggest that the TAS could be a useful screening instrument for alexithymic features in a population study, but the scale would probably need some revisions.
述情障碍是指个体在体验和表达自身情感方面存在的困难。人们已经引入了各种自陈式问卷来测量述情障碍，但在非临床人群中，针对这一概念的严格效度研究却很少。本研究的目的是评估多伦多述情障碍量表（TAS）在来自芬兰东部的1560名中年男性人群样本中的心理测量特性。本研究中应用的TAS修订版具有与先前结果及述情障碍理论概念相匹配 的因子结构。TAS总量表的内部一致性以及8个月的重测信度都是足够的。TAS与基于访谈的述情障碍特征评估的相关性相当好。结果表明，在人群研究中，TAS可能是一种用于筛查述情障碍特征的有用工具，但该量表可能需要一些修订。
