Trait Emotional Intelligence

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Trait Emotional Intelligence

• The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire
  (TEIQue)
• K. V. Petrides
• Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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Trait EI vs ability EI I

• Ability EI (or cognitive-emotional ability)
  concerns actual emotion-related cognitive
  abilities and should be measured through
  maximum-performance tests.
• Trait EI (or trait emotional self-efficacy)
  concerns emotion-related behavioural dispositions
  and self-perceived abilities and should be
  measured through self-report questionnaires.

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Trait EI vs ability EI II

• Is it possible to develop EI items along
  cognitive ability lines (IQ-like) that cover the
  construct in its entirety?
• NO because emotional experiences are inherently
  subjective (Brody, 2004 Roberts, Zeidner,
  Matthews, 2001).
• Trait EI is defined as
• a constellation of emotion-related
  self-perceptions and dispositions located at the
  lower levels of hierarchical personality
  taxonomies (Petrides Furnham, 2001).
• An alternative label is trait emotional
  self-efficacy.

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The sampling domain of trait EI

• Petrides Furnham (2001 EJP)
• Content analysis of early EI and related models
• Retained facets that appeared in multiple models,
  provided they were
• Emotion-related
• Theoretically coherent in their own right

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Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire
(TEIQue , TEIQue-SF, TEIQue-ASF, TEIQue 360o)

• TEIQue translations
• Greek
• French
• Spanish
• Chinese
• Portuguese
• Dutch
• Norwegian
• Croatian
• Serbian
• Italian??
• TEIQue-SF
• 30 items, global trait EI score
• Adolescent TEIQue-ASF
• TEIQue 360o

• 153 items, 15 subscales, 4 factors, global trait
  EI score.

• Theory-based
• Research-based
• Peer-reviewed
• Openly available

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Internal consistency
TEIQue-SF M 455 F 653 Global M (.89) F
(.88) Well-being M (.81) F (.79) Self-control M
(.66) F (.64) Emotionality M (.72) F
(.73) Sociability M (.68) F (.69)
TEIQue M 638 F 892
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• Results based on factor analysis of TEIQue v.
  1.00
• Sample size about 300 British adults.
• Principal axis with PROMAX rotation at kappa 4.

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Britain (N1388)
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China (N173)
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Belgium (French translation N740)
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Spain (TEIQue v. 1.00 N521)
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Norway (N129)
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Greece (TEIQue v. 1.00 N272)
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U.S.A. (TEIQue v. 1.50 N124)
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Canada (TEIQue v. 1.50 N 320)
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Croatia (N671)
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Australia (TEIQue v. 1.00 N122)
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Trait emotional intelligence - TEIQue

• Educational
• Petrides, K. V., Frederickson, N., Furnham, A.
  (2004). The role of trait emotional intelligence
  in academic performance and deviant behavior at
  school. Personality and Individual Differences,
  36, 277-293.
• Organizational
• Petrides, K. V. Furnham, A. (2006). The role
  of trait emotional intelligence in a
  gender-specific model of organizational
  variables. Journal of Applied Social Psychology,
  36, 552-569.
• Experimental
• Petrides, K. V. Furnham, A. (2003). Trait
  emotional intelligence Behavioural validation in
  two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity
  to mood induction. European Journal of
  Personality, 17, 39-57.
• Child development
• Petrides, K. V., Sangareau, Y., Furnham, A.,
  Frederickson, N. (in press). Trait emotional
  intelligence and peer relations at school.
  Social Development.
• Psychometric
• Petrides, K. V., Pita, R., Kokkinaki, F. (in
  press). The location of trait emotional
  intelligence in personality factor space.
  British Journal of Psychology.

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Heritability of trait EI
Vernon, Mackie, Petrides, Bacher raw data
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Why trait EI?

• Trait EI/trait emotional self-efficacy is a
  theory.
• It is testable because it leads to specific
  predictions (e.g., scores should increase with
  age).
• It is falsifiable (e.g., low test-retest
  correlations).
• It is general and allows us to predict the
  behaviour of many different measures.
• Trait EI/emotional self-efficacy theory is
  consistent with established individual
  differences models.
• It lies wholly outside the realm of cognitive
  ability.
• It is located at the lower levels of personality
  hierarchies.
• The TEIQue is recommended in research where
  detailed profiles of emotionality are of
  interest.

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The trait emotional intelligence research program
Research divisions Psychometric Organizational Edu
cational Experimental Child/Human Development
International links UK, Belgium (M. Mikolajczak),
Canada (T. Vernon), Croatia (D. Bratko), Cyprus,
Greece (F. Kokkinaki), The Netherlands (C.
Rieffe), Norway (O. Martinsen), Poland (A.
Wytykowska), Spain (J-C. Perez).
Current past funding bodies ESRC Nuffield
Foundation British Academy University of London
Students PhD G. Dissou, S. Mavrovelli BA, BSc,
MA, MSc, MPhil
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