“…The psychometric properties of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 have been examined and confirmed in multiple studies. Besharat (2007) normed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and reported Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the total Alexithymia and the three subscales as 0.85, 0.82, 0.75, and 0.72 respectively, indicating suitable internal consistency (6,18). Ashrafi (2006) reported Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the approach, active avoidance, passive avoidance, shutdown, fight, and flight components as 0.60, 0.54, 0.61, 0.66, 0.65, and 0.69, respectively, and reliability coefficients via the split-half method as 0.53, 0.57, 0.52, 0.62, 0.64, and 0.64, respectively (10,15).…”