Table 2.

Correlations between the Emotion Processing Scale (EPS-25) and measures of alexithymia (TAS-20), anxiety (GAD-7), and depression (PHQ-9) (N = 74)²⁸.

	EPS-25 total	Avoidance	Suppression	Impoverished emotional experience	Signs of unprocessed emotions	Unregulated emotions
TAS-20
Total	0.57***	0.57***	0.29***	0.35***	0.46***	0.61***
Describing feelings	0.49***	0.53***	0.20**	0.27***	0.40***	0.56***
Identifying feelings	0.65***	0.52***	0.45***	0.48***	0.53***	0.59***
Externally oriented thinking	0.21**	0.33***	0.02	0.04	0.15*	0.31***
GAD-7	0.66***	0.40***	0.57***	0.61***	0.54***	0.50***
PHQ-9	0.59***	0.43***	0.44***	0.48***	0.47***	0.49***

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.