Development and Validation of Implicit Measures of Emotional Intelligence Attributes

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is important for success in a wide range of social and professional roles. Interest in EI has spawned a debate about whether EI should be defined and measured as a set of abilities or as a set of dispositional self-perceptions, the latter being typically assessed with self-report measures that are susceptible to inaccurate self-knowledge and impression management artifacts. This research used Implicit Association Test procedures to develop measures of emotional intelligence and examined their construct validity using a multitrait-multimethod design. The results of confirmatory factor analyses of nested latent trait models provided evidence of convergent and discriminant validity.