英文摘要 |
This study evaluated the quality of the Traditional Chinese version of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ) for Taiwanese elementary school students. The participants were 338 schoolchildren (from 4th to 6th grade) from four elementary schools in northern Taiwan. The results were as follows. (1) The six subscales (Differentiating Emotions, Verbal Sharing of Emotions, Not Hiding Emotions, Bodily Awareness, Attending to Others’Emotions, Analyses of Emotions) of the Traditional Chinese version of the EAQ showed good reliability. (2) The confirmatory factor analysis of the EAQ and the tests of measurement invariance across gender demonstrated acceptable results of model fitness. (3) The results of examining concurrent validity of the EAQ showed that the correlation patterns were consistent with expected directions in terms of the associations between children’s emotional awareness and their psychological adjustment. There were positive correlations between children’s emotional awareness and maternal supportive strategy for responding to children’s negative emotions (i.e., reward). Furthermore, there were negative correlations between children’s emotional awareness and maternal unsupportive response strategies (i.e., magnify, neglect, punish). Overall, the findings validated that the Traditional Chinese version of the EAQ has acceptable reliability and validity and could be a useful tool to assess Taiwanese schoolchildren’s multifaceted emotional awareness. In addition, it could have applications in research, education, and psychological assessments. |