Yıldırım Ejder Akgün, Kaşar Muzaffer, Güdük Mehmet, Ateş Elif, Küçükparlak Ilker, Ozalmete Erdem Onur
Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry.
Turk Psikiyatri Derg. 2011 Fall;22(3):177-86.
The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test"(RMET) is one of the most widely used tasks for examining the Theory of Mind. In this study, the goal was to determine the reliability of a Turkish version of the RMET and the distribution of the results in a healthy population.
The original test is made up of 36 pictures of solely the eye region of different individuals. Subjects are asked to choose the option that best describes the mental state of individual in the picture. After 3 piloting studies each conducted with different sets of 8 people, 2 items (25 and 35) in which most of the subjects consistently replied to foil words, were excluded in final step. 117 healthy volunteers were given the test, and 70 of these individuals were re-tested two weeks later. The Bland and Altman method was used to examine test re-test reliability
The mean value of the number of correct responses was 24.46 (SD=3.44) for the test and 24.13 (SD=4.36) for the re-test. No significant difference was shown between test and re-test results (p=0.815). After excluding items 19 and 21 which failed to show reliability, the mean correct response rates were 23.64 (SD=3.38) and 23.40 (SD=4.32), respectively. The educational level significantly affected the correct response rates.
The Turkish version of the RMET was found to be reliable in a healthy population. The educational level should be taken into account. The 32-item version of the Turkish RMET can be used to evaluate the social, cognitive and emotional processes in adults.
“眼睛解读心智测试”（RMET）是用于检验心智理论的最广泛使用的任务之一。在本研究中，目标是确定RMET土耳其语版本的可靠性以及健康人群中的结果分布。
原始测试由36张仅不同个体眼部区域的图片组成。要求受试者选择最能描述图片中个体心理状态的选项。在分别对不同的8人组进行3次预试验研究后，在最后一步中排除了大多数受试者一致回答错误选项的2个项目（项目25和35）。对117名健康志愿者进行了测试，其中70人在两周后重新进行了测试。采用布兰德和奥特曼方法检验测试 - 重测可靠性。
测试的正确回答数量的平均值为24.46（标准差 = 3.44），重测的正确回答数量的平均值为24.13（标准差 = 4.36）。测试和重测结果之间未显示出显著差异（p = 0.815）。在排除未能显示出可靠性的项目19和21后，平均正确回答率分别为23.64（标准差 = 3.38）和23.40（标准差 = 4.32）。教育水平显著影响正确回答率。
发现RMET土耳其语版本在健康人群中是可靠的。应考虑教育水平。土耳其RMET的32项版本可用于评估成年人的社会、认知和情感过程。
