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Psychometric Properties of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a Group of Italian Younger Adolescents

Authors:	Giuseppe Craparo Palmira Faraci Alessio Gori

Affiliation:	1.Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy.;2.Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

Abstract:	Objective Alexithymia is a personality construct that inhibits and interferes with normal affect regulating abilities. The purpose of our study was to assess psychometric properties of TAS-20 in younger adolescents. Methods Data were collected from 508 younger adolescents (48.8% male and 51.2% female) with a mean age of 12.56 years (DS=0.50, range: 12-13 years). We administered the following scales: 20-Item-Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Results The confirmatory factor analysis performed on the second random subsample showed reasonable goodness-of-fit for the oblique bi-factorial model: [chi]² (32, n=254)=54.22; p=0.008; χ²/df=1.69; NNFI=0.92; CFI=0.95; SRMR=0.05; RMSEA=0.05; 90% confidence interval=0.027-0.078. Conclusion Based on the outcomes of our research we support the idea of evaluating adolescents for alexithymia.

Keywords:	Alexithymia Factorial model Adolescence TAS-20 Validation