Este guia se apoia na literatura científica de referência sobre regulação do afeto e alexitimia. Abaixo, as fontes primárias que fundamentam o conteúdo.
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Aftanas, L., & Varlamov, A. (2004). Associations of alexithymia with anterior and posterior activation asymmetries during evoked emotions. International Journal of Neuroscience, 114, 1443–1462.
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Bagby, R. M., Parker, J. D. A., & Taylor, G. J. (1994). The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale — I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38, 23–32.
Bagby, R. M., Taylor, G. J., & Parker, J. D. A. (1994). The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale — II. Convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38, 33–40.
Bagby, R. M., Taylor, G. J., Parker, J. D. A., et al. (2006). The development of the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia: item selection, factor structure, reliability and concurrent validity. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75, 25–39.
Bagby, R. M., Quilty, L. C., Taylor, G. J., et al. (2009). Are there subtypes of alexithymia? Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 413–418.
Bermond, B., Clayton, K., Liberova, A., et al. (2007). A cognitive and an affective dimension of alexithymia in six languages and seven populations. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1125–1136.
Haviland, M. G., Warren, W. L., & Riggs, M. L. (2000). An observer scale to measure alexithymia. Psychosomatics, 41, 385–392.
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Grynberg, D., Chang, B., Corneille, O., et al. (2012). Alexithymia and the processing of emotional facial expressions: systematic review, unanswered questions and further perspectives. PLoS One, 7, e42429.
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