TY - JOUR
T1 - The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale
T2 - A Cognitive-Developmental Measure of Emotion
AU - Lane, Richard D.
AU - Quinlan, Donald M.
AU - Schwartz, Gary E.
AU - Walker, Pamela A.
AU - Zeitlin, Sharon B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by NIMH Grant MH-14235 to Richard D. Lane, NIMH Grant MH-30929 Yale Clinical Science Research Center to Donald M. Quinlan, National Science Foundation Grant BNS-8318984 to Gary E. Schwartz, and the Veterans Administration.
PY - 1990/9
Y1 - 1990/9
N2 - The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) is based on a new cognitive-developmental model of emotional experience. The scale poses evocative interpersonal situations and elicits descriptions of the emotional responses of self and others which are scored using specific structural criteria. Forty undergraduates (20 of each sex) were tested. Interrater reliability and intratest homogeneity of the LEAS were strong. The LEAS was significantly correlated with two measures of maturity: the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT) of Ego Development, and the Parental Descriptions Scale-a cognitive-developmental measure of object representation. In addition, the LEAS correlated positively with openness to experience and emotional range but not with measures of specific emotions, repression or the number of words used in the LEAS responses. These findings suggest that it is the level of emotion, not the specific quality of emotion, that is tapped by the LEAS.
AB - The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) is based on a new cognitive-developmental model of emotional experience. The scale poses evocative interpersonal situations and elicits descriptions of the emotional responses of self and others which are scored using specific structural criteria. Forty undergraduates (20 of each sex) were tested. Interrater reliability and intratest homogeneity of the LEAS were strong. The LEAS was significantly correlated with two measures of maturity: the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT) of Ego Development, and the Parental Descriptions Scale-a cognitive-developmental measure of object representation. In addition, the LEAS correlated positively with openness to experience and emotional range but not with measures of specific emotions, repression or the number of words used in the LEAS responses. These findings suggest that it is the level of emotion, not the specific quality of emotion, that is tapped by the LEAS.
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U2 - 10.1080/00223891.1990.9674052
DO - 10.1080/00223891.1990.9674052
M3 - Article
C2 - 2231235
AN - SCOPUS:0025106112
SN - 0022-3891
VL - 55
SP - 124
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Personality Assessment
JF - Journal of Personality Assessment
IS - 1-2
ER -