Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire.
AEQ
- What it measures
- Conflict about expressing emotion: wanting to express and not doing so, and expressing and then regretting it, across positive and negative emotion.
- Length and format
- 28 items. 5-pt Likert (never - frequently) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- ~15 languages; heavily used in East Asian research, where the construct behaves differently and that difference is the finding
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- King, L. A., & Emmons, R. A. (1990). Conflict over emotional expression: Psychological and physical correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(5), 864-877.
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