Psychometric Properties of Farsi Version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (FTAS-20)

This study investigated the psychometric properties of farsi versionof the toronto alexithymia scale-20 for 709 undergraduate students(416 females and 293 males) at the university of tehran. allparticipants were asked to complete the farsi version of the torontoalexithymia scale-20 (ftas-20), the emotional intelligence scale,and the mental health inventory. findings supported the internalconsistency, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity, and three-factorstructure of the farsi version of the tas-20. the factors found in thefarsi version of the tas-20 are similar to the three factors found bybagby, parker and taylor (1994) and were accordingly labeled asdifficulty identifying feelings (dif), difficulty describingfeelings (ddf) and externally-oriented thinking (eat). resultsof this study provide evidence supporting the cross-cultural validity ofthe tas-20 and its applicability in iran.