title: Traditional Chinese version of the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT-TC): Its validation and application to schizophrenic individuals.
abstract: Schizophrenia is an illness that impairs a person's social cognition. The Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) is the most well-known test used to measure emotional intelligence (EI), which is a major component of social cognition. Given the absence of EI ability-based scales adapted to Chinese speakers, we translated the MSCEIT into a Traditional Chinese version (MSCEIT-TC) and validated this scale for use in schizophrenia studies. The specific aims were to validate the MSCEIT-TC, to develop a norm for the MSCEIT-TC, and use this norm to explore the EI performance of schizophrenic individuals. We included in our study seven hundred twenty-eight healthy controls and seventy-six individuals with schizophrenia. The results suggest that the MSCEIT-TC is reliable and valid when assessing EI. The results showed good discrimination and validity when comparing the two study groups. Impairment was the greatest for two branches Understanding and Managing Emotions, which implies that the deficits of schizophrenia individuals involve ToM (theory of mind) tasks. Deficits involving the negative scale of schizophrenia was related to impaired performance when the MSCEIT-TC was used (in branch 2, 3, 4, and the area Strategic). Our findings suggest that the MSCEIT-TC can be used for emotional studies in healthy Chinese and in clinical setting for investigating schizophrenic individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wei-Chung
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.affiliation: Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No.155, Sect. 2, Linong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan; Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: lfchen@ym.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Li-Fen
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chia-Hsing
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ching-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan Branch, School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yu-Chen
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wen-Yau
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsien-Yuan
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.affiliation: Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Integrated Brain Research Unit, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No.155, Sect. 2, Linong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan. Electronic address: jchsieh@ym.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Jen-Chuen
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hsieh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology; D007361:Intelligence Tests / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Abstract thinking; Emotional intelligence; Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT); Reliability; Schizophrenia; Social cognition; Validity