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TAS-20 alexithymia in obesity, and its links to personality

Författare

  • Kristina Elfhag
  • Lars-Gunnar Lundh

Summary, in English

We studied the association between alexithymia (20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, TAS-20) and obesity, and also assessed the construct validity of the TAS-20 in terms of personality dimensions in obese patients. The TAS-20 and its subscales were analysed for their correlations with the NEO Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI-R) in an obese sample of 259 patients. Obesity was associated with higher scores on the TAS-20 than a Swedish reference sample. Obese men furthermore scored higher on Externally Oriented Thinking than the obese women. TAS-20 scores correlated with elevated Neuroticism and lower levels of Extraversion and Openness, in agreement with most previous research, but also somewhat unexpectedly with lower Conscientiousness and for women also with lower Agreeableness. The TAS-20 subscales showed divergent associations with personality variables, largely in accordance with previous findings. The associations were more prominent for the women, and some gender-specific patterns not previously reported were also revealed.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

391-398

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volym

48

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • obesity
  • five-factor model
  • personality
  • TAS-20
  • alexithymia

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1467-9450