Open AccessAlexitimia y características psicológicas asociadas a actitudes alimentarias en una muestra de adolescentes
Author(s) -
Hipólito Merino Madrid,
Agustín Godás Otero,
María Guadalupe Pombo Carril
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
revista de psicopatología y psicología clínica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2254-6057
pISSN - 1136-5420
DOI - 10.5944/rppc.vol.7.num.1.2002.3920
Subject(s) - alexithymia , feeling , psychology , toronto alexithymia scale , clinical psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology
The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of alexithymia in a non-clinical sample of subjects with abnormal eating attitudes (EAT ≥ 20). Subjects (N = 220) completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40). Results suggest that subjects (N = 39) with a tendency to suffer the eating pathology (EAT ≥ 20) showed higher scores on the alexithymia scale than the control group (N = 181); particularly, these subjects shown a higher score on the affective subscales of the TAS-20 (i.e., difficulty identifying feelings and difficulty describing feelings), but not on cognitive deficits of alexithymia.
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