Measurement equivalence of the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia across language, gender, and clinical status

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 760-764

  Keefer, Kateryna V ^a   Taylor, Graeme J ^b   Parker, James D A ^c   Inslegers, Ruth ^d   Bagby, R Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Differential item functioning; Language equivalence; Test translations; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DUTCH; EMOTIONALITY; ENGLISH; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMAN; HUMAN; ITALIAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TORONTO STRUCTURED INTERVIEW FOR ALEXITHYMIA; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CAUCASIAN; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84938740859     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.04.044     Document Type: Article

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