Bodily, emotional, and sensory perception questionnaires.

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21 Jun 2013, 9:22 am

Hello,

A good friend of mine forwarded me this set of questionnaires as part of a study he’s doing on sensory processing in autism. I know everyone likes to take this sort of thing and so I thought I’d post it on here, too. There are questionnaires that I didn’t recognise, but you get all your scores at the end with a bit of information about them.

It seems to be about the relation between sensory processing issues, emotional processing issues, and the perception of internal bodily states in autism. Worth having a look at, as there aren’t many online questionnaires you can do for this sort of thing, at least not ones that self-score. I found it very interesting, especially the last questionnaire about internal sensations.

Interested to know what everyone’s results are.

https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bxrdWqB1SXtMbJj

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21 Jun 2013, 12:05 pm

Poppycocteau wrote:

Poppycocteau, for some reason I wasn't able to advance this questionnaire past the first page. I'm wondering if it's because I responded that I'm not British.

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21 Jun 2013, 1:27 pm

Did you click 'yes' to the very first part (under the email addresses)?

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21 Jun 2013, 1:33 pm

Thelibrarian wrote:

Poppycocteau, for some reason I wasn't able to advance this questionnaire past the first page. I'm wondering if it's because I responded that I'm not British.

I am not British, and I was able to complete the survey. They only ask about being in the UK to determine if you are eligible to be placed in a drawing for a 25 pound iTunes card.

[edit] Thank you for sharing, Poppycocteau; the survey results were very interesting and enlightening.

AQ- 33
Toronto Alexithymia Scale- 56 (possible Alexithymia, which is the range I fell into on another Alexithymia screening test)
Somatosensory amplification Scale- 18
Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire- 61
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness- 64

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21 Jun 2013, 2:03 pm

AQ- 46
Alexithymia- 77
Somatosensory Amplification Scale- 19
Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire- 92
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness- 32

Not too surprising considering I have an ED as well as ASD!

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21 Jun 2013, 2:13 pm

AQ- 38
Alexithymia-76
Somatosensory Amplification Scale- 22
Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire-85
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness- 57

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21 Jun 2013, 4:45 pm

AQ: 36 (Highest I've ever scored: 40. Lowest I've ever scored: 32)
Alexithymia: 30 (not Alexithymic)
SA: 27. Not sure how to gauge this, sounds like I'm in the upper 40% of amplification.
GSQ: 78... average for ASD=90. So I'm in range, not sure if that's higher or lower than average.
MAIA: 122 out of 160... in tune with myself mostly.

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21 Jun 2013, 4:47 pm

Poppycocteau wrote:

Your total score on the Autism Quotient (out of 50):

45

Your total score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (out of 100):

92

Your total score on the Somatosensory amplification Scale (out of 40):

33

Your total score on the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (out of 168):

105

Your total score on the 'Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness' test. (out of 160):

81

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21 Jun 2013, 5:54 pm

What do the somatosensory amplification scores mean?

AQ: 43
Toronto Alexithymia Scale: 77
Somatosensory Amplification: 20 - I think I would have scored significantly worse on this just five years ago, but I've been learning how to deal with it.
Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire: 112
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness: 51

I like that this survey provides feedback at the end. I find it less satisfying to do surveys that offer no such option.

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21 Jun 2013, 6:11 pm

AQ- 43 /50
Alexithymia- 77 /100
Somatosensory Amplification Scale- 19 /40
Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire- 86 /168
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness- 43 /160

That's the highest I've ever scored on an AQ / Alexithymia scale. The last part of the questionnaire was really difficult, I didn't understand what a lot of the questions meant.

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21 Jun 2013, 6:24 pm

Ah, this paper explains the somatosensory amplification scale:

http://www.bpsmedicine.com/content/1/1/17

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According to our clinical experiences and previous studies targeting the Japanese population, SSAS scores over 30 may reflect a highly somatizing condition; the average SSAS scores were 24–29 in groups of university students[14], office workers[15], and outpatients visiting a general internal medicine clinic [10] whereas it was 32 in the patients visiting a psychosomatic clinic[10]. Based on such experimental and epidemiological studies, we believe that somatosensory amplification appears to have both trait-like and state-like properties[10,14,15].

The SSAS is useful in briefly and objectively evaluating patients with mind/body distress. The total number of reported somatic symptoms has been considered to be a powerful predictor of functional impairment in physical, psychological, and social functioning [16], and the SSAS scores were shown to be closely associated with the total number of somatic symptoms in patients visiting a psychosomatic clinic[10].

Also:

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Somatosensory amplification and alexithymia
Alexithymia is a personality construct derived from the clinical observation of patients with psychosomatic illness [17]. It is characterized by difficulty in distinguishing between emotions and bodily sensations, difficulty identifying and describing emotions, and a mechanistic, concrete, literal cognitive style. Evidence has suggested that alexithymia is associated with a tendency to develop functional somatic symptoms [18-20]. Our recent study reported that the SSAS was significantly correlated with a Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), in the sample of individuals with psychosomatic illness[10]. High rates of alexithymia have been reported in patients with essential hypertension, myocardial infarction, inflammatory bowel diseases, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and chronic pain [21], and the close relationship between alexithymia and somatosensory amplification has been demonstrated in chronic pain [22] and functional dyspepsia[23]. The statistical and clinical association between somatosensory amplification and alexithymic characteristics appears logical. The roles of these two psychological concepts in clinical conditions should be further studied to clarify symptom generation and perception in patients with psychosomatic illness.

Now I'm surprised I scored only 20, but then I think if I'd taken it five years ago, or even better, ten I would have scored much higher, as I was diagnosed with panic disorder and taking far too many ER trips over somatic complaints - then again, many of those complaints were prompted by symptoms that can easily be attributed to fibromyalgia, which I have more recently been diagnosed with.

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21 Jun 2013, 7:52 pm

Here are my results -

Your total score on the Autism Quotient (out of 50): 40

Your total score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (out of 100): 58

Your total score on the Somatosensory amplification Scale (out of 40): 26

Your total score on the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (out of 168): 113

Your total score on the 'Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness' test. (out of 160): 30

It is very interesting - I'm glad people are finding it enlightening. As it turns out, I am surprisingly out of touch with my bodily states . . . which sounds about right as I'm always forgetting to drink and eat.

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21 Jun 2013, 8:21 pm

AQ= 47
Toronto Alexithymia= 74
Somatosensory amplification= 30
Glasgow Sensory= 106
Multidemensional Assessment of Introspective Awareness= 79

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21 Jun 2013, 8:29 pm

Your total score on the Autism Quotient (out of 50): 17

Your total score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (out of 100): 35

Your total score on the Somatosensory amplification Scale (out of 40): 24

Your total score on the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (out of 168): 39

Your total score on the 'Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness' test. (out of 160): 106

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My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.

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21 Jun 2013, 8:29 pm

Your total score on the Autism Quotient (out of 50):
30

Your total score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (out of 100):
53

Your total score on the Somatosensory amplification Scale (out of 40):
26

Your total score on the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (out of 168):
67

Your total score on the 'Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness' test. (out of 160):
17

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21 Jun 2013, 8:37 pm

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