2024-03-28T11:23:02Zhttps://gredos.usal.es/oai/requestoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1353792023-11-20T13:08:11Zcom_10366_4311com_10366_4200com_10366_3946com_10366_3823col_10366_4312
Constructing three emotion knowledge tests from the invariant measurement approach
Delgado González, Ana Rosa
Prieto Adánez, Gerardo Alfonso
Burin, Débora I.
Emotional intelligence
Neuroscience
Psychological constructionism
Psychiatry
Emotion knowledge
Invariant measurement
Rasch model
Psychological distance
[EN]Background. Psychological constructionist models like the Conceptual Act Theory
(CAT) postulate that complex states such as emotions are composed of basic psycho-
logical ingredients that are more clearly respected by the brain than basic emotions. The
objective of this study was the construction and initial validation of Emotion Knowledge
measures from the CAT frame by means of an invariant measurement approach, the
Rasch Model (RM). Psychological distance theory was used to inform item generation.
Methods
. Three EK tests—emotion vocabulary (EV), close emotional situations (CES)
and far emotional situations (FES)—were constructed and tested with the RM in a
community sample of 100 females and 100 males (age range: 18–65), both separately
and conjointly.
Results
. It was corroborated that data-RM fit was sufficient. Then, the effect of type
of test and emotion on Rasch-modelled item difficulty was tested. Significant effects
of emotion on EK item difficulty were found, but the only statistically significant
difference was that between ‘‘happiness’’ and the remaining emotions; neither type
of test, nor interaction effects on EK item difficulty were statistically significant. The
testing of gender differences was carried out after corroborating that differential item
functioning (DIF) would not be a plausible alternative hypothesis for the results. No
statistically significant sex-related differences were found out in EV, CES, FES, or total
EK. However, the sign of
d
indicate that female participants were consistently better
than male ones, a result that will be of interest for future meta-analyses.
Discussion
. The three EK tests are ready to be used as components of a higher-level
measurement process.
2017-10-02T07:44:26Z
2017-10-02T07:44:26Z
2017
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Delgado González, A, Prieto Adánez, G., Burin, D.I. (2017). Constructing three emotion knowledge tests from the invariant measurement approach. PeerJ, 5.
2167-8359
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/135379
10.7717/peerj.3755
eng
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3755
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