Validity and reliability of the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 413-434

  Vorst, Harrie C M ^a   Bermond, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Bermond Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire; Dimensionality; Five factor models; Measurement; Multi language comparison; Reliabilty; Toronto Alexithymia Scale 20; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001220633     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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