The assessing emotions scale has sound psychometric properties. Schutte and her colleagues reported that the scale has high internal consistency with Cronbach‟s alpha of 0.90. Numerous studies that used the scale have shown good reliability with mean alpha
across sample of 0.87. In addition, a two-week test-retest conducted by Schutte et al. (2007) indicated reliability of 0.78 for total scale scores.