Table 3.
Measures and Constructs Relevant to Review of Dimension 3 (Emotion Understanding and Acceptance) in AN and BN
| Measure | Primary Construct | Format | # Items |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Alexithymia Scale-26 (TAS-26; Taylor et al., 1985) and TAS-20 (Bagby et al., 1994a,b) | Alexithymia | 5-point Likert-type scale; strongly disagree to strongly agree | 26 (TAS-26) 20 (TAS-20) |
| Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (BVAQ; Vorst & Bermond, 2001) | Alexithymia | 5-point Likert-type scale; definitely applies to me to in no way applies to me | 40 (Two 20-item parallel forms) |
| Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) - Clarity subscale | Emotional Clarity | 5-point Likert-type scale; almost never to almost always | 5 (subscale) 36 (total) |
| DERS (Gratz & Roemer, 2004) - Awareness subscale | Emotional Awareness | 5-point Likert-type scale; almost never to almost always | 6 (subscale) 36 (total) |
| Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS; Lane et al., 1990) | Emotional Awareness | 6-point scale (0 to 5) used to rate participant descriptions of anticipated emotions in self and other in vignettes | 20 vignettes (Two 10-item parallel forms) |
| Emotional Avoidance Questionnaire (EAQ; Taylor et al., 2004) | Emotional Avoidance | 5-point Likert-type scale; not true of me to very true of me | 20 |
| Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - 9-item version (AAQ; Hayes et al., 2004) | Experiential Avoidance | 7-point Likert-type scale; never true to always true | 9 |
| State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 1/2 (STAXI; Spielberger, 1988; 1999) – Anger Expression (In & Out) & Anger Control (In & Out) subscales | Emotion Expression | 4-point Likert-type scale; almost never to almost always | 8 (subscales) 44/57 (total) |
| Silencing the Self Scale (STSS; Jack & Dill, 1992) – Self-Silencing subscale | Emotion Expression | 5-point Likert-type scale; strongly disagree to strongly agree | 31 |
| Emotional Expressiveness Scale (EES; Hayaki et al., 2002) | Emotion Expression | Forced-choice; Yes/No | 7 |
| Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ; Gross & John, 2003) - Suppression Subscale | Emotion Suppression | 7-point Likert-type scale; strongly disagree to strongly agree | 4 (subscale) 10 (total) |
| Beliefs about Emotions Scale (Rimes & Chalder, 2010) | Emotional Acceptance | 7-point Likert-type scale; totally agree to totally disagree | 12 |
| DERS (Gratz & Roemer, 2004) - Nonacceptance subscale | Emotional Acceptance | 5-point Likert-type scale; almost never to almost always | 6 (subscale) 36 (total) |
| Inventory of Cognitive Affect Regulation Strategies (Wolfsdorf Kamholz et al., 2006) - Acceptance of Feelings subscale | Emotional Acceptance | 4-point Likert-type scale; I don’t do this at all to I do this a lot | 2 (subscale) 59 (total) |
| Reading the Mind in the Eyes task (RME; Baron- Cohen et al., 2001) | Emotion Recognition | Participants view sets of eyes and select from four words to indicate the person’s likely emotional/mental state | 36 sets of eyes |
| Reading the Mind in the Voice task (RMV; Golan et al., 2007) | Emotion Recognition | Participants listen to sentences and select from four words to indicate the person’s likely emotional/mental state | 25 spoken sentences |
| Reading the Mind in Films task (RMF; Golan et al., 2006) | Emotion Recognition | Participants watch film clips and select from four words to indicate the protagonist’s likely emotional/mental state | 22 film clips |