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Table 2 Correlations between alexithymia scales and measures of negative affectivity

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

Scale

Level of depressive symptoms (BDI-II)

Trait anxiety (STAI-T)

TAS-20 total

0.00

0.13

TAS-DIF

− 0.09

0.15

TAS-DDF

0.13

0.17

TAS-EOT

− 0.04

− 0.02

BVAQ total

0.12

0.10

Identifying

0.01

0.16

Verbalizing

0.19

0.30*

Analyzing

0.04

0.11

Emotionalizing

0.02

− 0.07

Fantasizing

0.11

− 0.15

TSIA total

− 0.10

− 0.05

TSIA-DIF

− 0.15

− 0.01

TSIA-DDF

0.03

0.12

TSIA-EOT

− 0.15

− 0.09

TSIA-IMP

− 0.09

− 0.20

  1. * p < 0.05
  2. 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, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory, STAI-T State-Trait Anxiety Inventory—trait version