The EAS-40 is a 40 items, sef-report scale designed to evaluate psychopathological symptoms and it was adapted from the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) to Brazilian outpatiens of general hospitals.The aim was to estimate the test-retest reliability and the criterion validity of the EAS-40 to a non clinical population. The sample, composed by 113 college students (99 F and 14 M), answered to the EAS-40 and to the Brazilian version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) (external criterion). Results suggested that the EAS-40 can be a useful instrument to evaluate colleges' psychological symptoms with good temporal stability. It allows discriminating populations with different profiles. As to the concurrent validity, results showed that the EAS-40 dimensions are diversely correlated to the various TAS components. New researches, involving a more balanced sample concerning to participants' gender must be carried out.
Psychoticism; Anxiety; Somatization; Symptoms severity
