Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct characterised by difficulties identifying
one's feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, difficulties describing one's …

Objective: To review neurobiological studies of alexithymia in order to achieve a better
understanding of the relationship between alexithymia and psychosomatic diseases and …

Abstract The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report measure of 2
emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. It is a …

Alexithymia is an important mental health construct, but there is continuing debate regarding
its definition and measurement. We attempt to resolve this definitional uncertainty in two …

Objective: The aim of this paper was to review findings from studies that have evaluated the
reliability and factorial validity of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in different …

Alexithymia is a trait comprising people's ability to focus attention on and accurately
appraise their own emotions. Its assessment is of clinical interest because people who have …

Background Alexithymia, or “no words for feelings”, is a personality trait which is associated
with difficulties in emotion recognition and regulation. It is unknown whether this deficit is …

PurposeThe current paper focused on the validity of using self-reports to assess emotion
regulation abilities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). To assess this we sought responses …

Emotion regulation problems underlie the abnormal levels of negative or positive emotion
that characterise many forms of psychopathology. Several self-report measures of emotion …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the relative contribution of medical
variables, illness perceptions, coping and alexithymia to the variance in stress, distress and …