Emotional Expressivity Scale.
EES
- What it measures
- General emotional expressivity - the dispositional tendency to outwardly display emotions (unidimensional)
- Length and format
- 17 items. 6-pt Likert (never true - always true) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several languages (e.g. Spanish, Chinese, Turkish research adaptations); used internationally
- 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
- Kring, A. M., Smith, D. A., & Neale, J. M. (1994). Individual differences in dispositional expressiveness: development and validation of the EES. JPSP, 66(5), 934-949. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.66.5.934
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