Assessing alexithymia and emotional awareness: Relations between measures in a German non-clinical sample

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 952-959

  Lichev, Vladimir ^a   Rufer, Michael ^b   Rosenberg, Nicole ^a   Ihme, Klas ^a   Grabe, Hans Jörgen ^c,d   Kugel, Harald ^e   Donges, Uta Susan ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d HELIOS Hospital Stralsund   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LEVELS OF EMOTIONAL AWARENESS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; TORONTO STRUCTURED INTERVIEW FOR ALEXITHYMIA; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AWARENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898827149     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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