Study Beaman (2010): study CA 2005

Public

Recent retirees, Canada, followed 1 year, 200/-200/

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 327

Non Response

T1:26,8%, T2:12,8%

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
completed questionnaires at Concordia University T2: 12 months after T1

Correlate

Authors's Label

Emotional Awareness

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Internal reliability (alpha= .75). Inter-rater reliability for the LEAS was excellent (98% raw agreement; Cohen's kappa= .88; intra-class coefficients ranged from .83 to 1.0, with an average coefficient of .91)

Remarks

Level of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) (Lane & Schwartz, 1987) T2: 12 months later after T1

Distribution

study 1: M=31.08, SD=4.97
study 2: M=31.13, SD=4.90

Operationalization

Participants describe their anticipated feelings to 20 interpersonal scenes
Each scene is followed by two questions, namely, "How would you feel?" and "How would the other person feel?"
Three scores for the emotions described: (A) one for the self, (B) one for others, and (C)a total score of both self and other, coded by two trained experimenters
 
5 highly differentiated emotions for the self and other
4
3
2
1
0 lowest, nonemotional responses

Observed Relation with Happiness