What are expressed emotions qualitative measure of the amount of emotion displayed family setting care takers relatives how do relatives of a psychological patient express their attitude towards them while they are not present. The 60item level of expressed emotion scale lee developed by cole and. Research article testing the psychometric properties of a. The predictive validity of the scales have also been evaluated. Background expressed emotion ee is a measure of the family environment that has been demonstrated to be a reliable psychosocial predictor of relapse in schizophrenia. A convenience sample of 405 outpatients with psychotic disorders in hong kong and one of their.
Expressed emotion level scale is the first one of these scales. Harp university of rochester and highland hospital this paper reports on the development, reliability, and validity of a selfreport. Eric ej916425 the level of expressed emotion scale. Expressed emotion ee is currently among the most thoroughly investigated psychosocial research constructs in psychiatry. Expressed emotion is commonly assessed by the camberwell family interview 1, a semistructured interview, that requires the availability of a key relative and a considerable time for training, administration and scoring. Psychometric properties of a chinese version of the level. Expressed emotion polyu institutional research archive. Review expressed emotion and recurrence of suicidal. The four subscales of the lee are intrusiveness, negative attitude, toleranceexpectation and emotional response.
Research on outcomes from psychiatric disorders has highlighted the importance of expressed emotion ee, but its costeffective measurement remains a challenge. Research article testing the psychometric properties of a chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale waitongchien, 1 zenobiachungyeechan, 1 andsallywaichichan 2 school of nursing, faculty of health and social sciences, e hong kong polytechnic university. This study assessed the effect of expressed emotion ee among caregivers of. Unlike existing measures, the scale was constructed on the basis of a conceptual framework described by expressed emotion theorists. Testing the psychometric properties of a chinese version of the. Little is known about expressed emotion in the context of caregiving for persons with dementia, especially in nonwestern cultures. Various scales have been used to measure expressed emotion. The appropriateness of the level of expressed emotion scale as a measure of perceived expressed emotion was examined in a sample of adolescents. The perceived expressed emotion in staff scale core. In the present study we intend to assess if the expressed emotion perceived by the patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has any effect on their. Expressed emotion is a construct that has been used for the past three decades to describe family members criticism, hostility and emotional involvement with a mentally ill.
In addition, the conceptual similarities and prognostic utility of these measures require replication and further exploration. The perceived expressed emotion in staff scale is a convenient measure, which may have utility for both research and clinical purposes. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of the psychoeducation received by the family members of the patients with firstepisode schizophrenia on the expressed emotion ee and the family functioning of the family members. Hofmann department of psychology and center for anxiety and related disorders at boston. Participants were 239 male and 422 female adolescents with a mean age of 15. Predictors of expressed emotion, caregivers burden, and quality of life in chronic mental illness. To more fully address the question of the predictive validity of ee, we conducted a metaanalysis of all available ee. This article describes development of the family attitude scale fas, a 30item instrument that can be completed by any informant. Level of expressed emotion scale this is a 60item, selfreport scale that measures the emotional environment in the patients most important relationships. Predictive power and construct validity of the level of. Abstract the level of expressed emotion lee scale was developed to provide an index of the perceived emotional climate in a persons influential. This study has a quasiexperimental design with a control group.
The four factors of the lee has previously been found to be related to psychological disorders and has good psychometric. However, in recent years some prominent nonreplications of the eerelapse relationship have been published. Its compatibility with the results of cfi has been demonstrated and. This study tested the psychometric properties of a chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale in hong kong chinese patients with severe mental illness and their family caregivers. The level of expressed emotion lee scale was developed to provide an index of the perceived emotional climate in a persons influential relationships. Cole and others published level of expressed emotion scale lee. Research has suggested that selfreport measures of expressed emotion ee may be employed as a proxy measure of environmental stress in the home. Predictors of expressed emotion, caregivers burden, and. The fas is a 30item measure of family stress and expressed anger. In study 3, selfreports of willingness to express negative emotions predicted having more friends, controlling for demographic variables and extraversion. Expressed emotion a selfreport scale to measure cleveland g. When the factor structure and psychometric qualities of the level of expressed emotion scale, an instrument intended to assess patients perceptions of expressed emotion, were evaluated, three moderately intercorrelated factors emerged, with good internal consistency. Perceived expressed emotion in staff scale how is perceived expressed emotion in staff scale abbreviated.
Method in this study, the scales predictive and construct validity were examined in a sample of 26 clinically depressed outpatients and their partners, and. An evaluation of the shortcuts the harvard community has made this article openly available. Ee continued to be associated with relapse after patients socio economic status, type of family, location of residence, severity of alcohol related problems, family history, medical comorbidities and comorbid nicotine use were taken into. It is a psychological term specifically applied to psychiatric patients, and differs greatly from the daily use of the phrase emotion expression or another psychological concept family expressiveness. Critical comments and emo tional overinvolvement on the part of. Testing the psychometric properties of a chinese version. This work also suggests that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions, inperson interaction and nonverbal. Pdf factor analysis of the level of expressed emotion scale, a. In study 3, the scale was shown to have good concurrent validity against the ward atmosphere scale, and scores were found to be independent of insight or experience of admission to hospital. Evidencebased information on expressed emotion from hundreds of trustworthy sources for health and social care.
The level of expressed emotion lee is a fourfactor questionnaire that measures expressed emotion ee as perceived by the recipient. Pdf when the factor structure and psychometric qualities of the level of expressed emotion scale, an instrument intended to assess patients. Parker harvard university the construct of expressed emotion ee is a highly reliable and valid predictor of poor clinical outcomes in patients with major psychopathology. Depending upon the expressed emotion scale, lee versions, 14,21,22. Expressed emotion and relapse personality research. Pdf comparisons of two expressed emotion scales with the. Difficulties in emotion regulation scale ders please indicate how often the following statements apply to you by writing the appropriate number from the scale below on the line beside each item. Experimental evidence of massivescale emotional contagion. Of the alternative assessment methods available the use of the five minute speech sample or the level of expressed emotion scale as screening devices is recommended. In this prospective study, at the first assessment session, 116 stable patients were administered the perceived expressed emotion scale pees, the positive and negative symptom scale for schizophrenia panss as the primary outcome measure.
It has 60 items that form the four subscales, namely intrusiveness, emotional response, attitude toward illness, and tolerance and expectations. Attentiondeficithyperactivity disorder developmental. Assessment tools for measuring outcomes in psychosis. Development and validation of a new selfreport scale for assessing expressed emotion, psychiatry research on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Factor analysis of the level of expressed emotion scale, a. First, the semantic equivalence with the original english version and testretest reliability at 2week interval of the chinese version was examined. The level of expressed emotion lee is a fourfactor questionnaire that. Expressed emotion ee, is a measure of the family environment that is based on how the relatives of a psychiatric patient spontaneously talk about the patient. In study 4, selfreports of willingness to express negative emotion measured prior to arrival at college predicted. Full text effect of caregivers expressed emotion on the.
Measuring expressed emotion there is a scale that is used in the camberwell family interview of the family to categorize. The level of expressed emotion scale lee is a questionnaire designed to measure the perception of expressed emotion, an important predictor of the course of several psychiatric disorders. The prs an 11item measure of relatives hostile and critical attitudes toward their ill family member. Their caregivers were administered the expressed emotion scale ees. Perceived expressed emotion in staff scale listed as peess. Researcharticle testing the psychometric properties of a chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale waitongchien,1 zenobiachungyeechan,1 andsallywai.
The effects of psychoeducation on the expressed emotion. Parker harvard university the construct of expressed emotion ee is a highly reliable and valid predictor of poor. In the context of a prospective, controlled treatment study, contrasting family interventions with individual treatment, the role of expressed emotion ee as a predictor of relapse was examined in patients with recentonset schizophrenia and related disorders n97. Further development of a scale of perceived expressed emotion and its evaluation in a sample of patients with eating disorders. Comparisons of two expressed emotion scales with the camberwell family interview. Observed ee is assessed by coding speech samples, interviews, andor family interactions. Comparison between camberwell family interview and. Effect of caregivers expressed emotion on the care burden and rehospitalization rate of schizophrenia xia wang,1 qiongni chen,2 min yang1 1xiangya school of nursing, 2nursing department, second xiangya hospital, central south university, changsha, hunan, peoples republic of china background. Parentrated hyperactivity yielded a 4class trajectory solution in. The sample of the study was 60 family members 30 experimental. Does the level of expressed emotion lee questionnaire have the. These findings support a hierarchical model of individual differences in emotional expressivity. Does the level of expressed emotion lee questionnaire. Expressed emotion and relapse of alcohol use disorder.