title: Psychometric characteristics of the Emotional Quotient Inventory, Youth Version, Short Form, in Hungarian high school students.
abstract: Research on the psychometric characteristics, including factor structure, of measures assessing emotional intelligence improve our understanding of the manifest and latent dimensions of the construct. The factor structure of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (Bar-On, 1997), despite the popularity of the measure, has been the subject of only a few studies, and there are no data available at all on its 30-item version. The aim of our study was the structural analysis of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory, Youth Version, Short Form (Bar-On & Parker, 2000). During the multiple-step statistical analysis, confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses and a combined method of these were executed on a sample of 2,380 adolescents (mean age: 17 years, 47.9 % male). The results confirmed the original 5-factor structure (Intrapersonal Emotional Quotient, Interpersonal Emotional Quotient, Stress Management, Adaptability, and Positive Impression). However, only 24 of the original 30 items could be considered as belonging to the scales. Elimination of 6 items resulted in a clearer and more coherent factorial structure, which makes the measure an adequate tool for the assessment of the emotional intelligence of adolescents and young adults in surveys of large-scale samples.
authors: Institutional Group on Addiction Research, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors: Bernadette
authors: B
authors: Kun
authors: Róbert
authors: R
authors: Urbán
authors: Borbála
authors: B
authors: Paksi
authors: Lujza Vargáné
authors: LV
authors: Csóbor
authors: Attila
authors: A
authors: Oláh
authors: Zsolt
authors: Z
authors: Demetrovics
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D004644:Emotions; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D057566:Self Report; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult