Today, emoji have become a popular option for anchoring the categories of Likert-type scales applied to not only adults but also children. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of category labeling with emoji by comparing the psychometric properties of the emoji- and verbal-anchored versions of the mathematics motivation scale applied to students aged 8–11 years (grades 3, 4, and 5). The participants of the study comprised 658 students. According to the research results, students used the upper categories of the scale more intensively in the emoji-anchored version than in the verbal-anchored one. Parallel to this, the means calculated for the emoji-anchored version were found to be significantly higher. Moreover, the results of the research revealed that the verbal-anchored scale form yielded more reliable and valid measures than the emoji-anchored version.

今天，表情符号已成为锚定不仅适用于成人而且适用于儿童的李克特型量表类别的流行选择。本研究的目的是通过比较应用于 8-11 岁学生（3、4 和 5 ）。该研究的参与者包括 658 名学生。根据研究结果，学生在 emoji 锚定版本中比在语言锚定版本中更频繁地使用量表的较高类别。与此同时，发现为 emoji 锚定版本计算的平均值要高得多。而且，