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The purpose of this study was to calculate alexithymia cutoff scores for a recently developed self-report alexithymia questionnaire: the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire Form B (BVAQ-B). <i>Sampling:<\/i> Three hundred subjects (47 eating-disordered patients and 253 healthy individuals) completed the BVAQ-B and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). <i>Methods:<\/i> The TAS-20 was used as a gold standard for this research, with its previously established cutoff scores serving as diagnostic criteria for determining the presence or absence of alexithymia. The BVAQ-B cutoff score selection was based on the examination of psychometric data (i.e., the sensitivity and specificity of the BVAQ-B scores and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses) and of clinical data (i.e., BVAQ-B mean score of the control subjects, who were mostly nonalexithymic, and BVAQ-B mean score of a group of patients with eating disorders, the majority of whom were alexithymic). <i>Results:<\/i> This research found that the most appropriate BVAQ-B cutoff scores for determining the absence and presence of alexithymia were 43 and 53, respectively. <i>Conclusion:<\/i> In light of these findings, we believe that the BVAQ-B may also lend itself to a categorical evaluation of alexithymia, with these cutoff scores determining its absence or presence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1159\/000109955","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,10,19]],"date-time":"2007-10-19T11:00:58Z","timestamp":1192791658000},"page":"43-49","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["The Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire Cutoff Scores: A Study in Eating-Disordered and Control Subjects"],"prefix":"10.1159","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"A.-S.","family":"Deborde","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Berthoz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J.M.","family":"Wallier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J.","family":"Fermanian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"B.","family":"Falissard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"Jeammet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Corcos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"127","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,10,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1176%2Fappi.ajp.159.6.961"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2F0022-3999%2894%2990005-1"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002%2F%28SICI%291099-0984%28199911%2F12%2913%3A6%3C511%3A%3AAID-PER347%3E3.0.CO%3B2-0"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2FS0191-8869%2800%2900033-7"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2FS0022-3999%2803%2900033-3"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002%2F1097-0142%281950%293%3A1%3C32%3A%3AAID-CNCR2820030106%3E3.0.CO%3B2-3"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159%2F000091801"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159%2F000090594"},{"key":"ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2FS0013-7006%2804%2995461-9"},{"key":"ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159%2F000012340"},{"key":"ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2F0022-3999%2894%2990006-X"},{"key":"ref12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2FS0022-3999%2802%2900578-0"},{"key":"ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2FS0022-3999%2802%2900601-3"},{"key":"ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111%2Fj.1600-0447.1997.tb09650.x"},{"key":"ref15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2466%2FPR0.98.1.234-236"},{"key":"ref16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1176%2Fappi.psy.41.5.385"},{"key":"ref17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016%2Fj.eurpsy.2004.10.001"}],"container-title":["Psychopathology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Pdf\/109955","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Pdf\/109955","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,24]],"date-time":"2025-04-24T01:59:58Z","timestamp":1745459998000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/karger.com\/article\/doi\/10.1159\/000109955"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2007,10,18]]},"references-count":17,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,11,1]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1159\/000109955","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0254-4962","1423-033X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0254-4962","type":"print"},{"value":"1423-033X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2007,10,18]]}}}