Factor analysis has consistently yielded three factors that assess the salient features of the alexithymia construct: difficulty identifying feelings (F1); difficulty describing feelings (F2); and externally-oriented thinking (F3).
Our data demonstrated a statistically significant difference (p <0.01 and p <0.05) for the three factors of the alexithymia construct (difficulty identifying feelings, F1; difficulty describing feelings, F2; externally-oriented thinking, F3) as well as for the total score of the TAS-20.
The self-report questionnaire the Authors used, beyond the total alexithymia score, provides three separate, yet conceptually related, facets of the alexithymia construct: difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing them from the somatic sensations that accompany emotional arousal (F1), difficulty communicating feelings to other people (F2) and externally oriented thinking (F3).
"When I touch the camera lens I create an imaginary line from the lens to the object I am taking a picture of; I create the picture in my mind, I feel it and construct it to communicate feelings to the normal-visual world".
Let it never be said that HTC doesn't know how to construct a great-feeling phone.
FGDs enable collectively held views and understandings of salient issues to emerge – what we may call public transcripts – while IDIs enable the complexities and ambivalences of real lives to emerge, without men feeling compelled to construct public identities (37).
It's a darkly beautiful construct that reflects the feeling of being trapped with your thoughts.
The timer also reminds me to take breaks, and helps me construct my day without feeling I'm working either too much or too little.
Purple Rain and God rained down on him, as if he were so close to the One who produced rain and feeling to construct something that gorgeous and synchronistic.
Sadly, though, Marlantes reveals himself to be on the shakiest ground when he attempts to capture the perspective and words of the African American Marines -- to construct dialogue and the feeling of truth.
LaBute's play is a neat, elegant construct but one that leaves me feeling this highly intelligent writer is capable of so much more.
