Emotional Intelligence
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
Emotional Intelligence is a concept that every psychology student has to have heard of as part of their course on Intelligence and Personality . In short, emotional intelligence refers to the ability to use one's perception of their own and other's intelligence for decision making. The concept of Emotional Intelligence is popular in the business and leadership world. The idea is that good or successful leaders are able to "read" people's emotions.
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Source & citation
Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., Hall, L. E., Haggerty, D. J., Cooper, J. T., Golden, C. J., & Dornheim, L. (1998). Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 25 , 167–177.
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