Abstract

This study intended to develop an instrument to measure individual differences in emotional awareness. In order to compensate for the weaknesses of verbal self-report, computer based problem-solving questions were composed of various nonverbal stimuli such as facial and event pictures and emotional cartoons. Four items per six emotions(surprise, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust, joy) were chosen into the final version of a performance test, based on item analyses and validity indices. Analyses of variance and discriminant analyses showed a emotional performance test could classify participants with relatively high depression and high anxiety. Furthermore, a CBT of emotional performance seemed to achieve much more accuracy assessing emotional dysfunctions of schizophrenics rather than a self-report assessment tools.