Reliability and Validity of Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ) by Using the classic theory and its Relation with Cognitive Emotion Regulation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric parameters of Perth's anxiety Questionnaire (PAQ) and its relationship with cognitive emotion regulation. To investigate the validity of the questionnaire, exploratory factor analysis using varimax rotation and SPSS version 24 software was used. The results showed that 22 out of a total of 24 items translated into the Persian language are suitable for Iranian culture and cover four factors that together account for 60.90 percent of the total variance. Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for all subscales and the total scale was higher than 0.7. Regarding the study of the relationship between emotional collapse and emotional adjustment of the total emotional collapse scale, there is a direct and significant relationship with "self-induction," "anticipatory," "catastrophe" and "positive re-focusing," and the full scale.