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What do ability scales for emotional intelligence tests involve?

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Participants evaluate some sort of emotional stimuli and make judgements about it

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What do rating scales for emotional intelligence involve?

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Assessing typical performance

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What are the 2 different theoretical models of emotional intelligence?

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  1. Ability models (e.g. Four-Branch Model)

2. Mixed models (e.g. the TEIQue)

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What are the 2 different kinds of measurement models for emotional intelligence?

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  1. Ability scales (maximum performance)

2. Rating scales (typical performance)

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Describe the ability models of emotional intelligence

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Emotional intelligence as an ability

♣ Domain is emotional stimuli

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Describe the mixed models of emotional intelligence

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Emotional intelligence as an accumulation of different traits that impact emotional functioning
♣ Mix of a number of different characteristics drawn from different areas of psychology that combine to produce emotionally intelligence behaviour

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Describe the number of Stream 1 tests in comparison to other (Streams 2 and 3) tests

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Concept very broad – high predictive utility but too broad to be a meaningful construct on its own (Trait EI Questionnaire)

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What are the 3 “levels” of the Tripartite Model of EI?

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o Knowledge of emotions (declarative knowledge)
o Ability to apply the knowledge (procedural knowledge/skill)
o Tendency to apply this knowledge (typical behaviours, thoughts, feelings)

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Describe the ‘knowledge of emotions’ (declarative knowledge) level of the Tripartite Model of EI

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♣ Refers to complexity and width of conceptual-declarative emotion knowledge (i.e. number of differentiated concepts and number of links in the connected web of multimodal emotion-related concepts)

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Describe the ‘ability to apply the knowledge’ (procedural knowledge/skill) level of the Tripartite Model of EI

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♣ Refers to emotion-related abilities (i.e. ability to apply knowledge to a problem-solving situation and actually implement a given strategy)

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Describe the ‘tendency to apply this knowledge’ (typical behaviours, thoughts, feelings) level of the Tripartite Model of EI

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♣ Refers to emotion-related dispositions (or traits) (i.e. propensity to behave in a certain way in emotional

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What is emotionally intelligent behaviour in the Tripartite Model of EI?

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o Knowing what to do
o Knowing how to do it
o Be willing to do it

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What are the 3 streams of emotional intelligence?

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o Stream 1: Ability scales
o Stream 2: Self-reports of ability
o Stream 3: Self-reports of wider concepts

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What are some examples of Stream 1 (Ability Scales) assessments?

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♣	MEIS (Multi-factor EI Scale)
♣	MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso EI Scale)
	•	Expensive (hard to get a lot for large samples)
	•	Have to administer whole test (not allowed to only administer one part)
	•	People have started using STEM/STEU because they’re non-commercial and freely available
♣	STEM/STEU 
	•	Non-commercial
	•	Freely available
♣	Emotion recognition assessments
	•	JACBART
	•	DANVA
	•	MERT/GERT
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What are some examples of Stream 2 (Self-reports of Ability) assessments?

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♣ SREIS (Self-Report EI Scale)
♣ PEC (Profile of Emotional Competencies)
• Provides extra scale (than SREIS) for emotional expression
♣ Schutte scale
♣ TEIRA (Three-branch EI Rating Assessment)
♣ Wong-Law Scale

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What are 2 examples of Stream 3 (Self-reports of Wider Concepts) assessments?

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♣ TEIQue (Trait EI Questionnaire)

♣ EQ-I (Emotional Quotient Inventory)

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What is a feature of most of the models in the 3 streams?

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Emotion regulation

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What is the MSCEIT?

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  • Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
  • 8 ability measures (2 for each branch)
  • 4-branch model that measures ability-based EI
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What are the 4 branches of the MSCEIT?

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  1. Emotion perception
  2. Emotion facilitation
  3. Emotional understanding
  4. Emotion management
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What ability measures are involved in the Emotion Perception branch of the MSCEIT?

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♣ Faces + Pictures
♣ Have to look at a face and rate the extent to which several emotions are present in the face
• Differs from emotion recognition tests where you’re meant to rate the presence of an emotion – in MSCEIT, you rate the extent of emotions

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What ability measures are involved in the Emotion Facilitation branch of the MSCEIT?

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♣ Facilitation + Sensations

♣ Also uses the “rate the extent” scale in Emotion Perception tasks

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What ability measures are involved in the Emotional Understanding branch of the MSCEIT?

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♣ Blends + Progressions

♣ Multiple-choice tasks (unlike rest of MSCEIT)

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What ability measures are involved in the Emotion Management branch of the MSCEIT?

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♣ Management + Relations
♣ Situational judgement tests for management (scenario + # of response –> rate effectiveness of responses)
• Unusual for tests of cognitive ability to use rate-the-extent scales
o Typical of situational judgement tests that test tacit knowledge

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What are the alternative approaches to testing EI?

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♣ Emotion Perception/Recognition Tests
♣ The Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU)
♣ Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM)
♣ Multimedia Emotion Management Assessment (MEMA)

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What are some well-known emotion perception/recognition tests?
o Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA; 2004) o Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT; 2009) and Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT; 2009) o Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test (JACBART; 2000) o Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
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Describe the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA) test?
♣ Sort of an inspection time paradigm (but an image is visible for so long that the test is quite easy) • Used to be much-reduced time that the images were up for (more accurate, no floor/ceiling effects) more difficult ♣ Reasonably easy ♣ Focuses on emotion recognition ♣ Used to try to identify deficits in brain damage – focus on trying to identify the types of problems that people have • E.g. psychopaths may have trouble identifying fear in other people but no issue with identifying other emotions; children with callous emotional traits
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Describe the Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT) test?
♣ 83 items, each with 14 emotions • VERY long test ♣ Uses dynamic stimuli (short multimedia video clips) ♣ More difficult than DANVA
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Describe the Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test (JACBART) test?
♣ 56 items, each expressing one of 7 emotions ♣ Each item has a neutral face as forwards/backward mask ♣ Faces shown for 0.2-0.05 of a second
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Describe the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test?
♣ Used to test psychopaths ♣ Get a stimulus that’s only a small portion of a person’s face (only the eyes) compared to the whole body/face (as in other tests) • MERT and GERT do incorporate some of this
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What is the correlation between MSCEIT and other measurement paradigms?
♣ Correlates positively with DANVA (doesn’t seem to be specifically measuring emotion perception – general measure of emotional intelligence) • Correlates similarly with other measurement tests
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What may be some problems with emotion perception/recognition tests?
- Can be issues with difficulty and, therefore, variability o Reduced variability = reduced reliability (reduced correlations with outcomes) o Ecological validity – how it resembles real-life emotional tasks - Is the process assessed by the task (e.g. inspection time) more pertinent than the content (i.e. emotions)? - Emotion “perception” may not be the same as emotion “recognition”
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What are some ways to deal with the possible reduced variability (and, therefore, reduced reliability) of emotion perception/recognition tests?
• Limit viewing time o Inspection time paradigm: Stimulus shown for a brief period with a forward and backwards mask • Use subtle expressions • Limit information (give partial information; e.g. single channel or eyes only)
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Describe some aspects of the ecological validity of emotion perception/recognition tests
♣ Mirror phenomenon with micro-expressions (try to hide expressions but they still “leak” through) • Mirror the expectation-time paradigm ♣ Telephone/email exchanges
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Describe the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU)
- Three items for each of the 14 emotions (42 multiple-choice items) - Items consist of a character’s unwanted situation stopping with the person involved most likely to feel: a) Regret b) Hope c) Joy d) Sadness e) Relief - Items have added context o Personal life (e.g. An irritating neighbour of Eve’s moves to another state...) o Work life (e.g. A supervisor who is unpleasant to work with leaves Alfonso’s workplace...)
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What is the theoretical basis of the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU)?
Roseman’s (2001) Appraisal Theory: Theoretical basis for STEU item development and scoring
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Describe the Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM)
- 44 multiple-choice items - Situational Judgement Test (SJT) technique developed in three steps: o Situation generated ♣ Semi-structured interviews to elicit everyday emotional events (N = 51, ½ students) o Responses generated ♣ Free response “best” and “worst” answers to 138 situations (n = 30 for 3 x 46 items) ♣ Asked about managing emotions o Scoring key generated ♣ 11 experts answer items – score = proportion of experts rating that option o Often used in organisational psychology
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Who are the "experts" used in the STEM scoring key generation?
“Experts”: Life coaches, academics, psychologists, etc.
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What is the STEM often used in?
Organisational Psychology
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What is the validity evidence for the STEM and STEU?
- Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability (MacCann & Roberts, 2008; Allen et al., 2014; Allen et al., 2015) o STEM: .71 o STEU: .68 - Correlation of STEM with STEU: .70 - Correlation of STEU and STEM with MSCEIT o STEU+MSCEIT: .61 o STEM+MSCEIT: .38 (r=.45 for STEM and Understanding measure of MSCEIT)
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Describe the Multimedia Emotion Management Assessment (MEMA)
- 16 scenarios, each with 4 possible responses | - Each scenario and response is provided in video-form
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What are some issues with emotional intelligence tests?
- Issues with scoring can create ceiling effects - Possible construct-irrelevant variance of verbal ability / reading comprehension - Issues of cultural relativity / different social norms
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Describe how emotional intelligence tests can have issues with scoring that can create ceiling effects
o For any test with a defendable scoring weight (high expert agreement), the right answer is reasonably obvious (unambiguous – easiest for experts to agree) ♣ E.g. “Attractive distractors” are difficult to create for tests with socio-emotional content ♣ Therefore, most ability-based EI test items are best at discriminating at the bottom end rather than the top end
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How can the possible construct-irrelevant variance of verbal ability / reading comprehension in emotional intelligence tests be overcome?
o Multimedia assessment may overcome verbal ability / reading comprehension o No difference in cognitive ability correlations for the MEMA (multimedia clips) vs. the MSCEIT Management (text only)
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Describe the issues of cultural relativity / different social norms in emotional intelligence testing
o What the “correct” answer is may depend on social norms and expectations o Scoring may need to be re-normed for different countries/cultures o Test scenarios may need to be re-created for different countries/cultures o Language issues (different countries and cultural groups utilise different languages)

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