Levels of emotional awareness scale (LEAS).

The 10-tem LEAS^11,13 asks participants to describe what they believe they and another individual would feel in each of 10 hypothetical scenarios. Freely written responses (typed into a web-based interface; http://eleastest.net/) are scored based solely on the words chosen to describe feelings (scoring is done automatically by computer software). For each scenario, a score of 0 is given to non-emotional words (e.g., confused); a score of 1 is given to words related to bodily sensations (e.g., “exhausted”); a score of 2 is given to words describing emotional actions (e.g., “hitting”) or simple valence distinctions (e.g., “pleasant”, “unpleasant”) that entail approach/avoidance; a score of 3 is given to single emotion concept terms (e.g., “happy,” “afraid”); and a score of 4 is given when at least 2 emotion concept terms are used in a single scenario. For each scenario, the self- and other-related responses are scored separately (i.e., values of 0–4). A “total” score is then given for each scenario, which reflects the higher of the self- and other-related scores. However, if a score of 4 is given for both self and other, a total score of 5 is given for that scenario, as long as the self- and other-related responses are differentiable (for more details see¹¹).