Emotional Processing
Measuring Emotional Processing
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Measuring
emotional |
In
conducting a research project into emotional processing and panic,
we h
ad major
problems in finding an adequate measure of emotional
processing. Measures of emotional control, emotional regulation,
emotional intelligence, frequency and intensity of emotions and alexithymia were all
relevant but each only measured one aspect of processing. We thought
that if a
simple self administered measure of emotional processing could be devised,
it could be useful to studies looking at different types of psychotherapy.
It could also be used
in experimental studies trying to understand emotional change and for
basic research in emotions. It might also be helpful for
psychological therapists and counsellors seeking to formulate clients'
problems in terms of psychological coping mechanisms rather than
diagnostic categories. From 2000 to 2003 we sought to develop such a
simple but psychometrically sound measure of emotional processing called
the 'emotional processing scale'.
Click below to link to:
Background
and development of scale
Scale
validity and reliability
Collaborative research
projects
How to be included in
the research
References
"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be"
Lord Kelvin 1889
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