Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale.
LEAS
- What it measures
- Emotional awareness as a cognitive-developmental ability - structural complexity of emotion descriptions about self and others
- Length and format
- 20 evocative scenarios (each scored for self + other + total). open-ended written responses, scored 0-5 by structural criteria (glossary-based; or computer-scored) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Translated into ~20 languages; electronic versions (e.g. geLEAS German); used internationally in emotion-awareness research
- 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
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Lane, R. D., et al. (1990). The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 55(1-2), 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674052
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