Assessing emotional intelligence: theory, research, and applications

Managing human emotions plays a critical role in everyday functioning. After years of lively debate on the significance and validity of its construct, emotional intelligence (EI) has generated a robust body of theories, research studies, and measures. Assessing Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Research, and Applications strengthens this theoretical and evidence base by addressing the most recent advances and emerging possibilities in EI assessment, research, and applications. This volume demonstrates the study and application of EI across disciplines, ranging from psychometrics and neurobiology to education and industry. Assessing Emotional Intelligence carefully critiques the key measurement issues in EI, and leading experts present EI as eminently practical and thoroughly contemporary as they offer the latest findings on: EI instruments, including the EQ-I, MSCEIT, TEIQue, Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory, and the Assessing Emotions Scale. The role of EI across clinical disorders. Presents arich treatment of EI measurement and assessment in various settings Critically reviews the major measurement issues in EI and explores future assessment techniques Provides an introduction, critique, and summary chapters to surround the chapters that describe specific scales Provides information that is of relevance across disciplines ranging from psychology to education and industry INDICE: From the contents Current Advances in EI Assessment and Application.- Psychometrics and the Measurement of Emotional Intelligence.- An Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence: A rationale, description, and application of The Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT).- Assessing Emotional Intelligence using the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and Related Instruments.- Psychometric properties of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue).- The Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory.- The Assessing Emotions Scale.- The Importance and Training of Emotional Intelligence at Work.- Performance Based Measures and Practical Validity.- The Application of Emotional Intelligence in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.- Emotional Intelligence and Physical Health.- Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Disorders.- The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Education.- Emotional Intelligence Across Cultures: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-88369-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 364
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés