Abstract
Objectives The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) was developed to assess the emotional awareness construct, based on a cognitive-developmental perspective. This study aimed to develop the Korean version of LEAS (K-LEAS) and prove it's reliability and validity.
 Methods Through data from 218 university students, inter-rater reliability and internal consistency of K-LEAS were analyzed. Criterion validity were analyzed by the relationships with TAS-20, TMMS, DASS-21 and NEO-PI-RS.
 Results The results Showed high inter-rater reliability and internal consistency. K-LEAS scores were not significantly correlated with DASS-21 and total score of TAS-20, except externally-oriented thinking subscale in TAS-20. K-LEAS showed a significant positive correlation with only openness among NEO-PI- RSsubscales. In addition, women had significantly higher scores than men on K-LEAS, supporting the cross-cultural consistency in gender difference. In comparison between countries, the level of emotional awareness of Korean university students was similar to that of American university students, and higher than that of Japanese university students.
 Conclusions Although K-LEAS has sufficient reliability, it does not show convergent validity with existing self-report scale, which is suggested that K-LEAS measures emotional awareness ability in a different dimension from the self-report scale. Until now, Korean emotional research has tended to rely too much on self-report questionnaire research, and K-LEAS is expected to be used as a tool to evaluate individual emotional awareness ability not only in a subjective manner but also in objective performance.
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