Applicant Versus Employee Scores on Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Measures

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Lievens, Filip ^a   Klehe, Ute Christine ^b   Libbrecht, Nele ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Applicants; Emotional intelligence; Personnel selection; Score inflation; Trait based emotional intelligence self report

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959353245     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000036     Document Type: Article

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