Assessment of Emotional intelligence:
The Relation of Ability-Based and Self-Report Measures
Keywords:
Emotional intelligence, Ability-based measure, Self-report measure, VET, Secondary educationAbstract
This study presents the adaptation and validation to the Portuguese context of the Vocabulary Emotions Test (VET), an ability measure of Emotional Intelligence, particularly exploring their psychometrics properties and the criterion and convergent validity with a self-report measure, the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire ”“ Reviewed (ESCQ-R). Consisting of 35 items, the VET was constructed in Croatian settings by Takšic, Herambasic and Velemir (2003), and was developed to measure the ability to understand emotions. This study involved 682 10th graders, with ages between 14 and 21 years (M = 15.5; SD = .77) from several courses. The VET revealed good psychometric properties, showed positive correlations with academic achievement and evidenced better predictive validity than the ESCQ-R, with which no association was found.
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(VET): A cross-cultural validation in Portuguese and Croatian
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Questionnaire” (ESCQ) ao contexto português. Revista da
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da UFP, 2, 275-289.
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intelligence, personality, and the perceived quality of social
relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 35,
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intelligence in everyday life (pp. 3-24). Philadelphia: Taylor
& Francis.
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measure of emotional intelligence: The case for ability scales.
In R. Bar-On & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of emotional
intelligence: Theory, development, assessment, and application
at home, school, and in the workplace (pp. 320-342). San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mayer, J. D., DiPaolo, M. T., & Salovey, P. (1990). Perceiving
affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli: A component
of emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality Assessment,
54, 772-781.
Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1993). The intelligence of emotional
intelligence. Intelligence, 17, 433-442. doi: 10.1016/0160-
2896(93)90010-3
Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is emotional intelligence?
In P. Salovey & D. J. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional development
and emotional intelligence. Educational implications (pp.
3-31). New York, NY: Basic Books.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. (2000). Emotional
intelligence as Zeitgeist, as personality, and as a mental ability.
In R. Bar-On & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of emotional
intelligence: Theory, development, assessment, and application
at home, school, and in the workplace (pp. 92-117). San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. (2004). Emotional
intelligence: Theory, findings and implications. Psychological
Inquiry, 15, 197-215. doi: 10.1207/s15327965pli1503_02
Matthews, G., Roberts, R. D., & Zeidner, M. (2004). Seven myths
about emotional intelligence. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 179-
196.
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correct answer” in an ability-based emotional intelligence (EI)
test. Studia Psychologica, 52, 219-228.
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Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 77-101.
doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.51.2.77
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validity of emotional intelligence: Self-report versus abilitybased
measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 35,
1893-1902. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00038-2
Paulhus, D. L., Lysy, D. C., & Yik, M. S. M. (1998). Self-report
measures of intelligence: Are they useful as proxy IQ tests?
Journal of Personality, 66,525-554. doi: 10.1111/1467-
6494.00023
Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2000). On the dimensional
structure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual
Differences, 29, 313-320. doi: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00195-
6
Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence:
Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait
taxonomies. European Journal of Personality 15, 425-448.
doi: 10.1002/per.416
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validação da Escala de Auto-Eficácia Académica (EAEA).
Psicologia, XX(2), 45-68.
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intelligence meet traditional standards for an intelligence?
Some new data and conclusions. Emotion, 1, 196-231. doi:
10.1037//1528-3542.1.3.196
Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional Intelligence.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9, 185-211.
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J. T., Golden, C. J., & Dornheim, L. (1998). Development and
validation of a measure of emotional intelligence. Personality
and Individual Differences, 25, 167-177. doi:10.1016/S0191-
8869(98)00001-4
Spence, G., Oades, L. G., & Caputi, P. (2004). Trait emotional
intelligence and goal self-integration: important predictors of
emotional well-being? Personality and Individual Differences,
37, 449-461. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.001
Sternberg, R. J. (1988). The triarchic mind: A new theory of human
intelligence. New York: Penguin Books.
Stocker, J., & Faria, L. (2012). Competência percebida no ensino
secundário: Do conceito à avaliação através de um questionário
compósito. Psicologia, 26(2), 113-140.
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(ESCQ). Rijeka: Author’s edition.
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Test (VET 35). Rijeka: Authors’ edition.
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Test (VET): Ability measure of emotional intelligence.
Comunicação apresentada no XXIX Congresso Internacional
de Psicologia, Berlim/Alemanha.
Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C. (2004). Emotional Intelligence:
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of predictive Validity and
Nomological Net. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 71-95.
Alegre: Artmed Editora.
Barchard, K. A. (2003). Does emotional intelligence assist in the
prediction of academic success? Educational and Psychological
Measurement, 63, 840-858. doi: 10.1177/0013164403251333
Barchard, K. A., & Hakstian, A. R. (2004). The nature and
measurement of emotional intelligence abilities: Basic
dimensions and their relationships with other cognitive ability
and personality variables. Educational and Psychological
Measurement, 64, 437-462. doi:10.1177/0013164403261762
Bar-On, R. (2001). Emotional intelligence and self-actualization.
In J. Ciarrochi, J. P. Forgas, & J. D. Mayer (Eds.), Emotional
intelligence in everyday life: A scientific inquiry (pp. 82-97).
Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.
Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). Convergent, discriminant
and incremental validity of competing measures of emotional
intelligence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29,
1147-1158. doi: 10.1177/0146167203254596
Brackett, M. A., Mayer, J. D., & Warner, R. M. (2004). Emotional
intelligence and its relation to everyday behaviour. Personality
and Individual Differences, 36, 1387-1402. doi:10.1016/
S0191-8869(03)00236-8
Campbell, J. D., & Lavalle, L. F. (1993). Who I am? The role of
self-concept confusion in understanding the behaviour of
people with low self-esteem. In R.F. Baumeister (Ed.), Selfesteem:
The puzzle of low self-regard (pp. 3-20). New York:
Plenum Books.
Ciarrochi, J., Chan, A. Y. C., & Caputi, P. (2000). A critical
evaluation of the emotional intelligence construct. Personality
and Individual Differences, 28, 539-561. doi: 10.1016/S0191-
8869(99)00119-1
Ciarrochi, J., Chan, A. Y. C., & Bajgar, J. (2001). Measuring
emotional intelligence in adolescents. Personality and
Individual Differences, 31, 1105-1119. doi: http://dx.doi.
org/10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00207-5
Ciarrochi, J., Chan, A., Caputi, P., & Roberts, R. (2001). Measuring
emotional intelligence. In J. Ciarrochi, J. P. Forgas, & J. D.
Mayer (Eds.), Emotional intelligence in everyday life: A
scientific inquiry (pp. 25-45). Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.
Ciarrochi, J., Deane, F. P., & Anderson, S. (2002). Emotional
intelligence moderates the relation between stress and mental
health. Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 197”“209.
Costa, A., Faria, L., & Takšic, V. (2011). Vocabulary of emotions test
(VET): A cross-cultural validation in Portuguese and Croatian
contexts. Psychological Topics, 21(3), 413-424.
Davies, M., Stankov, L., & Roberts, R. D. (1998). Emotional
intelligence: In search of an elusive construct. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 989-1015.
doi:10.1037/0022-3514.75.4.989
Dunning, D., & Cohen, G. L. (1992). Egocentric definitions of
traits and abilities in social judgment. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 63, 341-355.
Faria, L., & Fontaine, A. M. (1992). Estudo de adaptação do
Self-Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III) a estudantes
universitários portugueses. Psychologica, 8, 41-49.
Faria, L., & Lima Santos, N. (2011). Questionário de Competência
Emocional (QCE). In C. Machado, M. M. Gonçalves, L. S.
Almeida & M. R. Simões (Eds.), Instrumentos e contextos de
avaliação psicológica (vol. I, pp. 67-80). Coimbra: Almedina.
Faria, L., Lima Santos, N., Taksic, V., Räty, H., Molander, B.,
Holmström, S., . . . Toyota, H. (2006). Cross-cultural validation
of the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire
(ESCQ). Psicologia, 2, 95-127.
Furnham, A., & Rawles, R. (1999). Correlations between selfestimated
and psychometrically measured IQ. The Journal of
Social Psychology, 139(4), 405-410.
Goldenberg, I., Matheson, K., & Mantler, J. (2006). The assessment
of emotional intelligence: A comparison of performancebased
and self-report methodologies. Journal of Personality
Assessment, 86, 33-45. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8601_05
Goleman, D. (1995). Inteligência emocional. Lisboa: Temas e
Debates.
Gonzaga, A. R., & Monteiro, J. K. (2011). Inteligência emocional no
Brasil: um panorama da pesquisa científica. Psicologia: Teoria
e Pesquisa, 27(2), 225-232.doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/
S0102-37722011000200013
Lima Santos, N., & Faria, L. (2005). Inteligência emocional:
Adaptação do “Emotional Skills and Competence
Questionnaire” (ESCQ) ao contexto português. Revista da
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da UFP, 2, 275-289.
Lopes, P. N., Salovey, P., & Straus, R. (2003). Emotional
intelligence, personality, and the perceived quality of social
relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 35,
641-658.
Mayer, J. D. (2001). A field guide to emotional intelligence. In
J. Ciarrochi, J. P. Forgas, & J. D. Mayer (Eds.), Emotional
intelligence in everyday life (pp. 3-24). Philadelphia: Taylor
& Francis.
Mayer, J. D., Caruso, D., & Salovey, P. (1999). Emotional
intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence.
Intelligence, 27, 267-298. doi: 10.1016/S0160-2896(99)00016-
1
Mayer, J. D., Caruso, D. R., & Salovey, P. (2000). Selecting a
measure of emotional intelligence: The case for ability scales.
In R. Bar-On & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of emotional
intelligence: Theory, development, assessment, and application
at home, school, and in the workplace (pp. 320-342). San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mayer, J. D., DiPaolo, M. T., & Salovey, P. (1990). Perceiving
affective content in ambiguous visual stimuli: A component
of emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality Assessment,
54, 772-781.
Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1993). The intelligence of emotional
intelligence. Intelligence, 17, 433-442. doi: 10.1016/0160-
2896(93)90010-3
Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is emotional intelligence?
In P. Salovey & D. J. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional development
and emotional intelligence. Educational implications (pp.
3-31). New York, NY: Basic Books.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. (2000). Emotional
intelligence as Zeitgeist, as personality, and as a mental ability.
In R. Bar-On & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.), Handbook of emotional
intelligence: Theory, development, assessment, and application
at home, school, and in the workplace (pp. 92-117). San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. (2004). Emotional
intelligence: Theory, findings and implications. Psychological
Inquiry, 15, 197-215. doi: 10.1207/s15327965pli1503_02
Matthews, G., Roberts, R. D., & Zeidner, M. (2004). Seven myths
about emotional intelligence. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 179-
196.
Mohoric, T., Takšic, V., & Duran, M. (2010). In search of “the
correct answer” in an ability-based emotional intelligence (EI)
test. Studia Psychologica, 52, 219-228.
Neisser, U., Boodoo, G., Bourchard, T. J., Jr., Boykin, A. W.,
Brody, N., Ceci, S. J., . . . Urbina, S. (1996). Intelligence:
Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 77-101.
doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.51.2.77
O’Connor, R. M. Jr, & Little, I. S. (2003). Revisiting the predictive
validity of emotional intelligence: Self-report versus abilitybased
measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 35,
1893-1902. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00038-2
Paulhus, D. L., Lysy, D. C., & Yik, M. S. M. (1998). Self-report
measures of intelligence: Are they useful as proxy IQ tests?
Journal of Personality, 66,525-554. doi: 10.1111/1467-
6494.00023
Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2000). On the dimensional
structure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual
Differences, 29, 313-320. doi: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00195-
6
Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence:
Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait
taxonomies. European Journal of Personality 15, 425-448.
doi: 10.1002/per.416
Pina Neves, S., & Faria, L. (2006). Construção, adaptação e
validação da Escala de Auto-Eficácia Académica (EAEA).
Psicologia, XX(2), 45-68.
Roberts, R. D., Zeidner, M., & Matthews, G. (2001). Does emotional
intelligence meet traditional standards for an intelligence?
Some new data and conclusions. Emotion, 1, 196-231. doi:
10.1037//1528-3542.1.3.196
Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional Intelligence.
Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9, 185-211.
Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., Hall, L. E., Haggerty, D. J., Cooper,
J. T., Golden, C. J., & Dornheim, L. (1998). Development and
validation of a measure of emotional intelligence. Personality
and Individual Differences, 25, 167-177. doi:10.1016/S0191-
8869(98)00001-4
Spence, G., Oades, L. G., & Caputi, P. (2004). Trait emotional
intelligence and goal self-integration: important predictors of
emotional well-being? Personality and Individual Differences,
37, 449-461. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.001
Sternberg, R. J. (1988). The triarchic mind: A new theory of human
intelligence. New York: Penguin Books.
Stocker, J., & Faria, L. (2012). Competência percebida no ensino
secundário: Do conceito à avaliação através de um questionário
compósito. Psicologia, 26(2), 113-140.
Takšic, V. (2000). Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire
(ESCQ). Rijeka: Author’s edition.
Takšic, V., Herambasic, D., & Velemir, B. (2003). Verbal Emotional
Test (VET 35). Rijeka: Authors’ edition.
Takšic, V., & Mohoric, T. (2008, julho). Vocabulary of Emotion
Test (VET): Ability measure of emotional intelligence.
Comunicação apresentada no XXIX Congresso Internacional
de Psicologia, Berlim/Alemanha.
Van Rooy, D. L., & Viswesvaran, C. (2004). Emotional Intelligence:
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of predictive Validity and
Nomological Net. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 71-95.
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