Computer scoring of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale

Barchard, Kimberly A.; Bajgar, Jane; Leaf, Duncan Ermini; Lane, Richard D.

doi:10.3758/brm.42.2.586

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“…Participants also completed an on-line version of the levels of emotional awareness scale (LEAS) (www.eleastest.net) that makes use of a validated automatic scoring program (Barchard et al , 2010). The LEAS presents 2–4 sentence descriptions of 20 social situations, each involving two people.…”

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Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network

Smith

Lane

Alkozei

et al. 2017

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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The maintenance of social/emotional information in working memory (SWM/EWM) has recently been the topic of multiple neuroimaging studies. However, some studies find that SWM/EWM involves a medial frontal-parietal network while others instead find lateral frontal-parietal activations similar to studies of verbal and visuospatial WM. In this study, we asked 26 healthy volunteers to complete an EWM task designed to examine whether different cognitive strategies— maintaining emotional images, words, or feelings— might account for these discrepant results. We also examined whether differences in EWM performance were related to general intelligence (IQ), emotional intelligence (EI), and emotional awareness (EA). We found that maintaining emotional feelings, even when accounting for neural activation attributable to maintaining emotional images/words, still activated a left lateral frontal-parietal network (including the anterior insula and posterior dorsomedial frontal cortex). We also found that individual differences in the ability to maintain feelings were positively associated with IQ and EA, but not with EI. These results suggest that maintaining the feelings of others (at least when perceived exteroceptively) involves similar frontal-parietal control networks to exteroceptive WM, and that it is similarly linked to IQ, but that it also may be an important component of EA.

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Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network

Smith

Lane

Alkozei

et al. 2017

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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“…Responses were open-ended and later entered into a computerized scoring system. 29 Scores range from 0–50, with higher scores indicating better emotional awareness and vocabulary. The LEAS consists of parellel versions (A and B).…”

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Reductions in Alexithymia and Emotion Dysregulation After Training Emotional Self-Awareness Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Phase I Trial

Neumann

Malec

Hammond

2017

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

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Objectives To examine the acceptability and initial efficacy of an emotional self-awareness treatment at reducing alexithymia and emotion dysregulation in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Setting Outpatient rehabilitation hospital. Participants Seventeen adults with moderate to severe TBI and alexithymia. Time post-injury ranged 1–33 years. Design Within subject design, with 3 assessment times: baseline, posttest, and 2-month follow-up. Intervention Eight lessons incorporated psycho-educational information and skill-building exercises teaching emotional vocabulary, labeling and differentiating self-emotions; interoceptive awareness; and distinguishing emotions from thoughts, actions and sensations. Measures Alexithymia (TAS-20); Emotional Awareness (LEAS); Trait Anxiety (TAI); Depression (PHQ-9); Anger (STAXI); Emotion Dysregulation (DERS); and Positive and Negative affect (PANAS). Results Thirteen participants completed the treatment. Repeated measures ANOVA revealed changes on the TAS-20 (p=.003), LEAS (p<.001), TAI (p=.014), STAXI (p=.015), DERS (p=.020) and Positive Affect (p<.005). Paired t-tests indicated significant baseline to posttest improvements on these measures. Gains were maintained at follow-up for the TAS, LEAS, and Positive Affect. Treatment satisfaction was high. Conclusion This is the first study published on treating alexithymia post-TBI. Positive changes were identified for emotional self-awareness and emotion regulation; some changes were maintained several months post-treatment. Findings justify advancing to the next investigational phase for this novel intervention.

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“…After completing the resting state scan, participants were brought back to the lab, seated at a laptop computer, and asked to complete an on-line version of the LEAS (www.eleastest.net) that uses a validated automatic scoring program (Barchard et al , 2010). …”

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Higher levels of trait emotional awareness are associated with more efficient global information integration throughout the brain: a graph-theoretic analysis of resting state functional connectivity

Smith

Sanova

Alkozei

et al. 2018

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Previous studies have suggested that trait differences in emotional awareness (tEA) are clinically relevant, and associated with differences in neural structure/function. While multiple leading theories suggest that conscious awareness requires widespread information integration across the brain, no study has yet tested the hypothesis that higher tEA corresponds to more efficient brain-wide information exchange. Twenty-six healthy volunteers (13 females) underwent a resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, and completed the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS; a measure of tEA) and the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI-II; a measure of general intelligence quotient [IQ]). Using a whole-brain (functionally defined) region of interest (ROI) atlas, we computed several graph theory metrics to assess the efficiency of brain-wide information exchange. After statistically controlling for differences in age, gender and IQ, we first observed a significant relationship between higher LEAS scores and greater average degree (i.e. overall whole-brain network density). When controlling for average degree, we found that higher LEAS scores were also associated with shorter average path lengths across the collective network of all included ROIs. These results jointly suggest that individuals with higher tEA display more efficient global information exchange throughout the brain. This is consistent with the idea that conscious awareness requires global accessibility of represented information.

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Computer scoring of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale

Cited by 45 publications

References 44 publications

Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network

Maintaining the feelings of others in working memory is associated with activation of the left anterior insula and left frontal-parietal control network

Reductions in Alexithymia and Emotion Dysregulation After Training Emotional Self-Awareness Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Phase I Trial

Higher levels of trait emotional awareness are associated with more efficient global information integration throughout the brain: a graph-theoretic analysis of resting state functional connectivity

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