Assessing the validity of emotional intelligence measures

• Main Authors: MINERS, Christopher T. H., COTE, Stéphane, LIEVENS, Filip
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Emotional intelligence; Validity; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5785; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6784/viewcontent/Miners__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We describe an approach that enables a more complete evaluation of the validity of emotional intelligence measures. We argue that a source of evidence for validity is often overlooked by researchers and test developers, namely, evidence based on response processes. This evidence can be obtained through (a) a definition of the ability, (b) a description of the mental processes that operate when a person uses the ability, (c) the development of a theory of response behaviour that links variation in the construct with variation on the responses to the items of a measure, and (d) a test of the theory of response behaviour through one or more strategies that we describe.