Effect of response scale on assessment of emotional intelligence competencies

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 575-580

  Batista Foguet, Joan Manuel ^a   Saris, Willem ^a   Boyatzis, Richard ^a   Guillén, Laura ^a   Serlavós, Ricard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competency assessment; Cross cultural; Emotional intelligence; Metric equivalence; Multi source feedback assessment; Response bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749089326     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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