Self-awareness of emotions was defined as the ability to know one's various feelings by expressing them with words. It was measured by coding the description the person writes about his/her emotions toward another person whom he/she likes. Seven scales were administered to 108 high school and 77 university students to investigate the relationship among self-awareness of emotions, awareness of others, vocabulary, empathy, and creativity, all of which were conceptually related, with the last two being components of emotional intelligence. Results showed that self-awareness of emotions had a significant correlation with aware- ness of others, but not with vocabulary. A three-factor model of self-awareness, empathy, and creativity was confirmed by covariance structure analysis. Self-awareness and empathy were found to correlate significantly with creativity. The results suggested that the construct of self-awareness of emotions was useful and full convergent-discriminant validation of the emotional intelligence construct necessary.
Key words: self-awareness of emotions, awareness of others, vocabulary, emotional intelligence