The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences

Yazarlar: Turan Fatma , Sütçübaşı Bernis , Taş Cumhur

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DOI:10.5455/JNBS.1564127380

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Özet: The identification of facial expressions’ is essential part of the communication and differ across cultures. In this study, the aim is to develop an emotion identification test with facial expressions of Turkish people and test the reliability and validity. As stimuli, 7 photos of fundamental face expressions’ were taken in 64 Turkish citizens between 18-60 ages. 72 participants with same age range completed the Empathy Scale, Facial Emotion Identification Test and the test that prepared for the current study called “Emotion Identification Test from Facial Expressions of Healthy Individuals in Turkish Society” to test the validity and reliability and repeated 15 days later. The Wilcoxon, Mann Whitney U, Pearson Correlation tests are used to determine the differences between scales. The findings are evaluated in the range of 95% reliability level and %5 (p<0,05) relevance level. The correlation level of the Emotion Identification Test from Facial Expressions of Healthy Individuals in Turkish Society test-retest was found as r=0.58. According to results, women more accurately recognize the disgust face expressions in the newly developed test than men do. Moreover, the scared, shocked and happy facial expressions and total scores were different between the Facial Emotion Identification Test and new test. Current study is the first study about developing a facial expression test in Turkish population that validates psychometric properties comparing with other social cognitive scales. We believe that this test will a good alternative in research fields of neurology and psychiatry conducted with Turkish populations.

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