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September 1, 1990Journal of Personality Assessment

The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale: A Cognitive-Developmental Measure of Emotion

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RLRichard D. LaneGeneral / Preventive / LipidsDQDonald M. QuinlanYale UniversityGSGary E. SchwartzHebrew University of Jerusalem

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Implication

Psychometric evaluation reveals the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale captures structural emotion maturity in undergraduates, suggesting it measures complexity of emotional experience.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the reliability and construct validity of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS), a cognitive-developmental measure designed to assess individual differences in emotional awareness.
  • Tested N=40 undergraduate students (20 men and 20 women) using evocative interpersonal scenarios scored by structural criteria for self and other emotional responses.
  • Assessed interrater reliability and intratest homogeneity of the LEAS, comparing performance with the Washington University Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development, the Parental Descriptions Scale, and personality indices.
  • The LEAS exhibited strong interrater reliability and high intratest homogeneity across evaluated scenarios.
  • LEAS scores correlated significantly with measures of psychological maturity, including ego development and object representation, as well as openness to experience and emotional range.
  • LEAS scores did not correlate with measures of specific emotions, psychological repression, or total word count in participant descriptions.

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Lane et al. (1990) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fc2e6024cc0af589fa3d7bhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674052
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