title: Validity evidence for the situational judgment test paradigm in emotional intelligence measurement.
abstract: To date, various measurement approaches have been proposed to assess emotional intelligence (EI). Recently, two new EI tests have been developed based on the situational judgment test (SJT) paradigm: the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU) and the Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM). Initial attempts have been made to examine the construct-related validity of these new tests; we extend these findings by placing the tests in a broad nomological network. To this end, 850 undergraduate students completed a personality inventory, a cognitive ability test, a self-report EI test, a performance-based EI measure, the STEU, and the STEM. The SJT-based EI tests were not strongly correlated with personality and fluid cognitive ability. Regarding their relation with existing EI measures, the tests did not capture the same construct as self-report EI measures, but corresponded rather to performance-based EI measures. Overall, these results lend support for the SJT paradigm for measuring EI as an ability.
authors: Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Nele
authors: N
authors: Libbrecht
authors: Filip
authors: F
authors: Lievens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001077:Aptitude Tests; D003071:Cognition; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult