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An Evaluation of Construct Validity: What Is This Thing Called Emotional Intelligence?

An Evaluation of Construct Validity: What Is This Thing Called Emotional Intelligence? This article presents a meta-analytic review of the Emotional Intellpigence (EI) construct. The first portion of the study examines the relation between EI measures based on two differing models of the construct (i.e., mixed and ability). This study then examines the relation of each of the models separately with cognitive ability and the Big Five personality factors. Results indicate that measures based on the mixed model of EI overlap extensively (i.e., correlate .71 among themselves; k = 12, N = 3,259), whereas mixed measures and ability measures are relatively distinct (.14; k = 13, N = 2,442). Mixed model measures of EI exhibited greater overlap with personality- than ability-based EI measures. Conversely, ability-based EI measures demonstrated a higher correlation with cognitive ability than mixed measures (.34 vs. .13). Implications and suggestions for the measurement of EI are provided. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Performance Taylor & Francis

An Evaluation of Construct Validity: What Is This Thing Called Emotional Intelligence?

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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1532-7043
eISSN
0895-9285
DOI
10.1207/s15327043hup1804_9
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Abstract

This article presents a meta-analytic review of the Emotional Intellpigence (EI) construct. The first portion of the study examines the relation between EI measures based on two differing models of the construct (i.e., mixed and ability). This study then examines the relation of each of the models separately with cognitive ability and the Big Five personality factors. Results indicate that measures based on the mixed model of EI overlap extensively (i.e., correlate .71 among themselves; k = 12, N = 3,259), whereas mixed measures and ability measures are relatively distinct (.14; k = 13, N = 2,442). Mixed model measures of EI exhibited greater overlap with personality- than ability-based EI measures. Conversely, ability-based EI measures demonstrated a higher correlation with cognitive ability than mixed measures (.34 vs. .13). Implications and suggestions for the measurement of EI are provided.

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Human PerformanceTaylor & Francis

Published: Oct 1, 2005

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