Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form

• Authors: Dorota Szczygieł , Aleksandra Jasielska , Agata Wytykowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study was aimed at validating the Polish version of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQue-SF). Our findings confirm the reliability and validity of the scale. With respect to reliability, internal consistency coefficients of the TEIQue-SF were comparable to those obtained using the original English version. The evidence of the validity of the TEIQue-SF came from the pattern of relations with the other self-report measure of EI, personality measures, as well as affective and social correlates. We demonstrated that the TEIQue-SF score correlated positively with scores on the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (INTE) (Jaworowska & Matczak, 2001). The TEIQue- SF score correlated negatively with Neuroticism and positively with Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. In addition, scores on the TEIQue-SF were related to dispositional affect, i.e., correlated positively with positive affectivity and negatively with negative affectivity. The TEIQue-SF score correlated positively with social competencies as measured with the Social Competencies Questionnaire (Matczak, 2001). We also found that trait EI, as measured with the TEIQue-SF, was positively related to the richness of one’s supportive social network and this relationship remained statistically significant even after controlling for Big Five variance. We also demonstrated that scoring on the TEIQue-SF was positively related to satisfaction with life and negatively related to perceived stress and these relationships remained significant, even after controlling for positive and negative affectivity. Taken together, these findings suggest that the Polish version of the TEIQue-SF is a reliable and valid measure that inherits the network of associations both from the original version of the TEIQue-SF and the full form of the Polish TEIQue (Wytykowska & Petrides, 2007).

Keywords

EN

trait emotional intelligence; personality; dispositional affectivity; social functioning; TEIQue

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 447-459

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-11-17

Contributors

author

Dorota Szczygieł

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

author

Aleksandra Jasielska

• Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

author

Agata Wytykowska

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

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DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0051