Alexithymia has been reconceptualized as a disorder to emotion regulation or psychobiological dysregulation in humans, and various measures have been developed . However, these measures have been found to lack adequate reliability and/or
validity.
So,
Taylor and other initially developed the TAS, and later develop an improved version of the introduction of a 20-item version(the TAS-20), which has demonstrated its reliability and validity in several countries. The aim of the this study was to
translate the English questionnaire of the TAS-20 into Koran, so that it will be applicable to Korean society. Next, the study attempted to examine the validity of the TAS-20K.
This study tested a general dimension of alexithymia with a three factor-model in the TAS-20K, using confirmatory factor analysis. The subjects were 388 Korean undergraduate students:216 males and 172 females in the medical and nursing schools of
Kyungpook-National University.
In this study, we found the Korean version of the TAS-20 to be replicable and valid. By using confirmatory factor analysis. the study revealed more valid results than the ones obtained in Germany, Canada, and the United States. Finally, this
research
should also assess samples of various age groups or various kind of patients. The author stress that it is very important to consider cultural difference between the East and the West and characteristic of Korean culture in developing a Korean
version
of foreign scales.
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