Emotional intelligence

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From:

Jahanvash KARIM, Emotional Intelligence: A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Analysis Thèse pour obtenir le grade de DOCTEUR DE L‘UNIVERSITE D‘AIX-MARSEILLE III EN SCIENCES DE GESTION.

The construct of emotional intelligence (EI) - the ability to identify, process, and manage emotions, in both oneself and others (Goleman, 2001; Mayer & Salovey, 1997) - has received widespread attention, both within popular press and scholarly journals, ever since its inception in the 1990‘s. Indeed, ―few fields of psychological investigation appear to have touched so many disparate areas of human endeavor, since its inception, as has emotional intelligence‖ (Mattews, Zeidner, & Roberts, 2002, p. 4). Given the plethora of research, within EI field three research streams can be identified. Stream one relates to identifying how individual differences in EI relate to social, health and behavioural factors, which are important in real life. The second stream relates to identifying how EI is an important variable within work settings. Finally the third stream relates to EI models and psychometrics (test construction, reliability, validity, relations with other psychological

constructs).

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