Adaptation, Reliability and Validity of The Discrete Emotions Questionnaire

Many studies examining human psychology try to measure emotions and relate them to other concepts. Especially in clinical psychology, emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and their relationship with psychopathology are subject to research studies. Emotions need to be conceptualized to be measured. Just as emotions are dimensionally conceptualized, there is also an approach stating that each emotion can be distinguished from each other by words, gestures and facial expressions. As a result of the approach that suggests that emotions are discrete, some measurement tools have been developed and introduced into our language. The number of separate emotions measured in these tools has been found to be limited. From this point of view, it was aimed to adapt the Discrete Emotions Scale, which was developed to measure discrete emotions, into Turkish, and to conduct validity and reliability studies. In this study, two measurements were made. In the first measurement, Positive and Negative Emotion Scale, Mood Profile and Discrete Emotion Scale were applied to 271 people. The second measurement was made by reapplying the Discrete Emotions Scale one month after the first measurement to 120 people who participated in the first measurement to measure test-retest reliability. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 8-factor structure, which coincided with the original Discrete Emotion Scale. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale was 0.91, and the test- retest reliability was 0.88. The internal consistency coefficients of the 8 sub-factors of the scale were found to be distributed between 0.72-0.91. Convergent and divergent validity of the scale was tested with the Positive and Negative Emotion Scale and the Mood Profile and significant results were obtained. The results of the study indicate that the Discrete Emotion Scale Turkish adaptation is valid and reliable.

Keywords

Clinical psychology, Emotion, Affect, Discrete emotions, Validity, Reliability.