The development and evaluation of a brief form of the normative male alexithymia scale (NMAS-BF).

The development and evaluation of a brief form of the normative male alexithymia scale (NMAS-BF).

Levant RF; Parent MC

Journal of counseling psychology

2019

2019-03

The current study extended prior work on the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS), a unidimensional measure of some men's limitations in expressing emotion that results from gender-based socialization informed by the masculine norm of restrictive emotionality (RE). Data (N = 505 men) were from Amazon Mechanical Turk participants. First, dimensionality was reassessed using exploratory factor analysis, which supported the unidimensional structure. Second, based on these results, three 6-item models of the NMAS-Brief Form (NMAS-BF) were developed, based on classical test theory (CTT), CTT optimized to avoid item redundancy, and item response theory (IRT). Third, the relative fits of these versions were assessed using confirmatory factor analysis on a separate part of the sample, finding that the IRT version was the best fitting model. Fourth, evidence for reliability for the

Female; Humans; Male; Adult; Aged; Middle Aged; Reproducibility of Results; Psychometrics; Factor Analysis Statistical; Socialization; Affective Symptoms/diagnosis/psychology; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale/standards

PMID: 30284847

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NEOMED College of Medicine

Department of Family & Community Medicine

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