الخصائص السيكومترية لصورة عربية لاستبيان تورنتو لتشخيص الألكسيثيميا (tas-20) المطور لدى عينة من الأطفال المصريين : دراسة سيكومترية
The main objectives of research were, (a) translating and adapting the alexithymia questionnaire (TAS-20) for children into Arabic; (b) verifying the factor structure of the adapted questionnaire; and (c) describing its psychometric properties, in a sample of (200) Egyptian children aged (10- 12) years. The results have found that the second order confirmatory factor analysis provided strong evidence for the validity of the latent construction of the Toronto alexithymia questionnaire (TAS- 20) developed for children, that vocabulary (20) was saturated with three latent factors of the first order (difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings, and externally oriented thinking). In addition، that these three latent factors are saturated by one latent factor from second order that is alexithymia. The results also indicated that the questionnaire is characterized by an acceptable internal consistency; that correlations between subscales and total score were ranged between (0.621-0.881) all of which are statistically significant at (0.01) level; As well as the items of the questionnaire also had the ability to distinguish. Concurrent validity analyses indicated significant relationship between alexithymia and anxiety, the correlation coefficients of alexithymia (dimensions and total score), with anxiety (total score) ranged between (0.625-0.809) all of which are statistically significant at (0.01) level. Finally, the results showed good reliability coefficients with respect to the sub-dimensions and the questionnaire as a whole, which the Cronbach's Alpha coefficients ranged between (0.885 - 0.934), and correlation coefficients in the test–retest ranged between (0.812 - 0.912) all of which are statistically significant at (0.01) level. (Published abstract)