Veirman Elke, Fontaine Johnny R J, Van Ryckeghem Dimitri M L
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University.
Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University.
Psychol Assess. 2016 Nov;28(11):1416-1426. doi: 10.1037/pas0000261. Epub 2016 Feb 22.
The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale for Children (LEAS-C) is a performance-based instrument that assesses emotional awareness in the structure of written responses to a set of real-life scenarios. While it is theoretically expected that emotional awareness develops with age, virtually no age differences have been established with the LEAS-C. The present study investigated whether an adaptation of the instructions and scoring procedure on the basis of the componential emotion approach could improve the validity of the LEAS-C and reveal the theoretically expected age differences. An adapted LEAS-C was administered to a sample of 574 children and adolescents and scored with the original and a new componential scoring procedure. An acceptable reliability for the original and a good reliability and a high interrater reliability for the componential scoring procedure were observed. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses showed measurement invariance of factor loadings and intercepts across children (8 to 12 years) and adolescents (13 to 16 years) for all tested models, for both scoring procedures. A one-factor model fitted well for the total scores and self and other scores for both scoring procedures. The pattern of relationships with alexithymia, emotional intelligence, intelligence, personality, and social and emotional impairment as well as gender differences were comparable with prior research. Furthermore, the expected relationship with age was found, with stronger correlations for the componential than the original scoring procedure. In conclusion, analyses of the reliability, internal structure, and nomological network supported the adaptations of the LEAS-C on the basis of the componential emotion approach. (PsycINFO Database Record
儿童情绪觉察量表（LEAS-C）是一种基于表现的工具，通过对一系列现实生活场景的书面回答结构来评估情绪觉察能力。理论上预期情绪觉察能力会随着年龄增长而发展，但使用LEAS-C几乎未发现年龄差异。本研究调查了基于成分情绪方法对指导语和评分程序进行调整是否能提高LEAS-C的效度，并揭示理论上预期的年龄差异。对574名儿童和青少年样本施测了改编后的LEAS-C，并采用原始评分程序和新的成分评分程序进行评分。观察到原始评分程序具有可接受的信度，成分评分程序具有良好的信度和较高的评分者间信度。多组验证性因素分析表明，对于所有测试模型和两种评分程序，儿童（8至12岁）和青少年（13至16岁）的因素载荷和截距具有测量不变性。单因素模型对两种评分程序的总分、自我和他人得分拟合良好。与述情障碍、情商、智力、人格、社会和情绪障碍的关系模式以及性别差异与先前研究相当。此外，发现了与年龄的预期关系，成分评分程序的相关性比原始评分程序更强。总之，对信度、内部结构和法则网络的分析支持了基于成分情绪方法对LEAS-C的改编。（PsycINFO数据库记录
