Development and Validation Study of the Korean Emotional Expressivity Scale

Abstract

This study was conducted to explore the structure of emotional expressivity among Korean adults and to construct the emotional expressivity scale (KEES), and to examine its reliability and validity. A pool of preliminary items were selected, based on the item analysis of an open questionnaire which was to search the characteristics of a highly emotional expressive person, and administered to 258 undergraduates and 105 normal adults, and KEES with 16 items was constructed using factor analyses on the data. KEES was highly reliable in terms of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Factor analyses revealed that KEES had consistently three factors labeled 'Activity', 'Yeon-Min and In-Jeong', and 'Expressivity'.And KEES was found to be highly correlated with other expressivity scales and personality variables, hence these results indicated that KEES had good construct validity. Also the implications and limitations of this study were discussed, and future directions of study were suggested.