Table 6.

Suicide behaviour and alexithymia subscales: Bivariate and multivariate relationships.

Study	Alexithymia measure	DIF bivariate relationship	DIF multivariate relationship	DDF bivariate relationship	DDF multivariate relationship	EOT bivariate relationship	EOT multivariate relationship	Control variables
Evren (2006)	TAS-20	d = 0.49*	–	d = 0.49*	–	d= - 0.11†	–	–
Ghorbani et al. (2017)	TAS-20	–	Non-significant – no values given†	–	Non-significant – no values given†	–	Unstandardized B = 0.14⁎⁎⁎	Demographic variables, alcohol dependency, depression, emotion regulation, TAS-20 subscales
Gulec et al. (2014)	TAS-20	d = 0.37*	–	d = 0.37†	–	d= −0.33†	–	–
Izci et al. (2015)	TAS-20	r = 0.06†	–	r = 0.04†	–	r = 0.04†	–	–
Loftis (2014)	TAS-20	r = 0.28⁎⁎⁎	–	r = 0.14⁎⁎⁎	–	r = 0.07†	–	–
Meaney et al. (2016)	TAS-20	r = 0.10⁎⁎⁎	–	r = 0.08⁎⁎⁎	–	r= −0.02†	–	–
Na (2013)	TAS-20	d = 0.72*	OR=1.07 (95% CI=1.01–1.13)*	d = 0.72*	OR=1.20 (95% CI=1.09–1.32)⁎⁎⁎	d = 0.36*	–	Cooperativeness
Rogers (2015)	TAS- 20	r = 0.08*	–	r = 0.15†	–	r = 0.13†	–	–
Sayar et al. (2003)	TAS-26	d = 0.17†	–	d = 0.09†	–	d= −0.32†	–	–

EOT=Externally Oriented Thinking; DDF=Difficulty Describing Feelings; DIF=Difficulty Identifying Feelings; TAS-20=Toronto Alexithymia Scale.

^⁎⁎p<.01.

^⁎p<.05.

^⁎⁎⁎p<.001.

^†Non-significant.