Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0.

Abstract

Does a recently introduced ability scale adequately measure emotional intelligence (EI) skills? Using the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT; J. D. Mayer, P. Salovey, & D. R. Caruso, 2002b), the authors examined (a) whether members of a general standardization sample and emotions experts identified the same test answers as correct, (b) the test's reliability, and (c) the possible factor structures of EI. Twenty-one emotions experts endorsed many of the same answers, as did 2,112 members of the standardization sample, and exhibited superior agreement, particularly when research provides clearer answers to test questions (e.g., emotional perception in faces). The MSCEIT achieved reasonable reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis supported theoretical models of EI. These findings help clarify issues raised in earlier articles published in Emotion.

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“…As highlighted by many scholars, only ability-based models of emotional intelligence "capture the core meaning of emotional intelligence as a set of emotion-related abilities" (Walter et al, 2011: 52;Daus and Ashkanasy, 2005;Jordan, Dasborough, Daus, and Ashkanasy, 2010). It has been shown to be a reliable (Mayer, Salovey, Caruso, and Sitarenios, 2003;Keele and Bell, 2009) and valid (Brackett and Mayer, 2003;Côté and Miners, 2006;Lopes et al, 2004) measure of emotional intelligence (Papadogiannis, Logan, and Sitarenios, 2009). Although it has received some criticism, the MSCEIT is the most frequently studied, developed, and used measure of emotional intelligence Côté et al, 2010).…”

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