Age and gender effect on alexithymia in large, Japanese community and clinical samples a cross-validation study of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20).docVIP

BioPsychoSocial Medicine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Age and gender effect on alexithymia in large, Japanese community and clinical samples: a cross-validation study of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) Yoshiya Moriguchi*1, Motonari Maeda2, Tetsuya Igarashi1, Toshio Ishikawa3, Masayasu Shoji1, Chiharu Kubo4 and Gen Komaki1 Address: 1Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi Kodaira-City, 187-8551, Tokyo, Japan, 2College of Art and Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design, 190