Incremental validity of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test Version 2.0 (MSCEIT) after controlling for personality and intelligence

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-65

  Rossen, Eric ^a   Kranzler, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Big 5; Cognitive ability; Emotional intelligence; MSCEIT; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549096910     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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