Summary
Based on Scherer’s Component Process Model, the Geneva Emotion Research Group has developed this new instrument to obtain self-report of felt emotions elicited by events or objects.
Description
A participant chooses which emotion s/he feels from a wheel-shaped emotion scale.
Strengths
developed by research group that is well-equipped to develop such scales
Weaknesses
– same drawbacks as with all subjective scales
References describing the method
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/emotion/resmaterial/gew.zip
You can download a zip archive file that contains a master Word file (with the description of the instrument, suggested instructions, and a model of the answer sheet) as well as supporting literature.
What are emotions? And how can they be measured? Social Science Information, 44(4), 693-727.
References about quality of the method
The development of this scale is decribed in Scherer, K. R. (2005).