Table 1.
Correlations between measures of alexithymia and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS).
| TAS-20 | HSPS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | DDF | DIF | EOT | Total | EOE | AES | ||
| TAS-20 | Total | -- | ||||||
| DDF | 0.75 ** | -- | ||||||
| DIF | 0.78 ** | 0.46 ** | -- | |||||
| EOT | 0.57 ** | 0.18 | 0.14 | -- | ||||
| HSPS | Total | 0.26 ** | 0.23 * | 0.42 ** | −0.13 | -- | ||
| EOE | 0.33 ** | 0.29 ** | 0.46 ** | −0.06 | 0.84 ** | -- | ||
| AES | −0.06 | −0.02 | 0.12 | −0.27 ** | 0.53 ** | 0.25 ** | -- | |
| LST | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.25 * | −0.02 | 0.75 ** | 0.46 ** | 0.13 | |
TAS-20, Toronto Alexithymia Scale; DIF, difficulty identifying feelings; DDF, difficulty describing feelings; EOT, externally oriented thinking subscales; HSPS, Highly Sensitive Person Scale; EOE, ease of excitation; AES, aesthetic sensitivity; LST, low sensory threshold subscales.
*
Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed);
**
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).