Table 2.

TAS-20 total and subscale scores in males and females

	Males	Females	P value
TAS-20	56.2 ± 18.2	46.4 ± 15.1	0.0035 (**)
DIF	19.3 ± 7.8	15.3 ± 5.6	0.0034 (**)
DDF	14.5 ± 5.3	12.3 ± 4.5	0.0255 (*)
EOT	22.4 ± 6.8	18.8 ± 6.5	0.0082 (**)

TAS-20 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, DIF Difficulty Identifying Feelings, DDF Difficulty Describing Feelings, EOT Externally-Oriented Thinking. Data are represented as mean ± SD. The unpaired t test with Welch’s correction was used to analyze differences between males and females

*: p < 0.05. **: p < 0.01