TY - JOUR
T1 - New reliability and validity evidence of the emotional intelligence scale
AU - Zhoc, Karen C.H.
AU - Li, Johnson C.H.
AU - Webster, Beverley J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for all the students who participated in this study and the funding support (the Faculty Research Fund) offered by the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study was supported by the Faculty Research Fund offered by the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) is a popular EI measure. Yet, it has been criticized for an unclear factor structure, and its psychometric properties were mainly examined in the Western context. This study was to evaluate its psychometric properties based on 1,724 Hong Kong undergraduate students, including its (a) factor structure, (b) internal consistency, and (c) criterion validity. We compared different factor structures reported in the literature. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results supported a six-factor structure, which is tallied with Salovey and Mayer’s EI conceptualization. A multigroup CFA also rendered the structure as gender invariant. The scale was internally consistent with high McDonald’s omega coefficients. Significant association between EI and grade point average (GPA) was revealed in the faculties with people-oriented studies. Furthermore, EI was correlated with social, cognitive, and self-growth outcomes and satisfaction of university experience. The study contributes to clarify the factor structure and provides new reliability and validity evidence of the EIS in the Eastern context.
AB - Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) is a popular EI measure. Yet, it has been criticized for an unclear factor structure, and its psychometric properties were mainly examined in the Western context. This study was to evaluate its psychometric properties based on 1,724 Hong Kong undergraduate students, including its (a) factor structure, (b) internal consistency, and (c) criterion validity. We compared different factor structures reported in the literature. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results supported a six-factor structure, which is tallied with Salovey and Mayer’s EI conceptualization. A multigroup CFA also rendered the structure as gender invariant. The scale was internally consistent with high McDonald’s omega coefficients. Significant association between EI and grade point average (GPA) was revealed in the faculties with people-oriented studies. Furthermore, EI was correlated with social, cognitive, and self-growth outcomes and satisfaction of university experience. The study contributes to clarify the factor structure and provides new reliability and validity evidence of the EIS in the Eastern context.
KW - confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
KW - emotional intelligence
KW - Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS)
KW - factor structure
KW - measurement
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U2 - 10.1177/0734282916653901
DO - 10.1177/0734282916653901
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026889564
SN - 0734-2829
VL - 35
SP - 599
EP - 614
JO - Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
JF - Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
IS - 6
ER -