Confirmatory factor analysis of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test V 2.0 (MSCEIT)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1258-1269

  Rossen, Eric ^a   Kranzler, John H ^a   Algina, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CFA; EI; Emotional intelligence; Factor analysis; MSCEIT

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149129059     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.11.020     Document Type: Article

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