Table 2.

Scores on the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and proportion of alexithymic versus nonalexithymic participants.

	Patients	Controls	P
TAS-20 Total	49.36 (±13.38)	42.80 (± 10.06)	0.03*
TAS-20 DIF (/35)	15.78 (± 6.05)	12.43 (± 5.03)	0.01*
TAS-20 DDF (/25)	15.21 (± 4.93)	13.73 (± 5.07)	0.12
TAS-20 EOT (/40)	18.32 (± 4.86)	16.63 (± 3.46)	0.08
A/NA	15/13	7/23	0.02*

TAS-20, Toronto Alexithymia Scale; DIF, Difficulty Identifying Feelings; DDF, Difficulty Describing Feelings; EOT, Externally Oriented Thinking; A, alexithymic; NA, nonalexithymic.

^*p < 0.05.