Developing and Validating a Korean Version of the Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills

Abstract

In this study, a Korean Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) was developed by modifying the original ACES which was initially introduced in the United States. Specifically, the original ACES was translated into Korean and revised to better fit the Korean cultural context. The content validity of the revised Korean ACES was established via expert reviews. To test its reliability, the revised Korean ACES was conducted on 286 six-year-old children. A confirmatory factor analysis indicated that our newly developed Korean ACES can be used as an appropriate tool to measure Korean children’s emotional skills. The Korean ACES can stimulate further studies on these emotional skills and contribute to various international collaborative studies that seek to compare the emotional skills of children from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Attention mechanisms and emotion judgment for Korean and American emotional faces: an eye movement study

“…The Assessment of Children’s Emotional Skills (ACES) developed by Schultz, and the Korean ACES were used as photo stimuli by displaying them on the eye-tracking screen. The Korean ACES was modified to suit Korean domestic circumstances such as ethnic composition, by replacing the original ACES’ photos by Korean children’s photos ( Chung et al, 2022 ). ACES’ original tools include four sets of photographs of four emotional expressions of non-Korean children including both black and white children: joy, sadness, anger, and fear.…”