Alexithymia and automatic processing of facial emotions: behavioral and neural findings

BMC Neuroscience

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the alexithymia measures

Scale	Mean	SD	Range	Mean item score^a
TAS-20 total	43.20	10.70	22–71	2.16
TAS-DIF	12.49	4.29	7–25	1.78
TAS-DDF	12.45	4.59	5–24	2.49
TAS-EOT	18.27	4.59	10–31	2.28
BVAQ total	106.44	24.01	65–166	2.66
Identifying	18.76	5.73	8–36	2.34
Verbalizing	22.94	7.82	9–39	2.87
Analyzing	18.76	6.55	9–32	2.34
Emotionalizing	20.16	6.32	11–35	2.52
Fantasizing	25.84	7.29	13–37	3.23
TSIA total	16.59	9.82	2–37	0.69
TSIA-DIF	1.35	2.05	0–8	0.22
TSIA-DDF	2.73	3.37	0–11	0.46
TSIA-EOT	5.80	3.38	0–12	0.97
TSIA-IMP	6.71	2.92	1–11	1.12

^aRating scale from 1 to 5 for the TAS-20 and BVAQ and from 0 to 2 for the TSIA
N = 49. TAS-20 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, DIF difficulties identifying feelings, DDF difficulties describing feelings, EOT externally oriented thinking, BVAQ Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire, TSIA Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia, IMP imaginal processes

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