FIRST EVIDENCE OF VALIDITY OF THE FRENCH VERSION OF TAS-20 IN A QUEBEC ADOLESCENT POPULATION
This research aimed to analyze first evidence of validity of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale with French Canadian adolescents using a revised and translated version by a research group of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Léveillée, 2012). Confirmatory factorial analysis with Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimator was realized to test five different models with 183 adolescents (143 girls and 40 boys) from 14 to 18 years old. Results indicate that the traditional oblique 3-factor model best represents the data.