The Potential of Emotional Intelligence in Personality Space

The study is based on the research analyses of K.V.  Petrides’ (2011) trait emotional intelligence construct verified by his Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-TEIQue. Verification of the EI trait construct by stepwise regression analysis confirmed that it is determined only to a certain extent by the Big Five personality factors theory (14%) (by the TIPI questionnaire, Gosling, 2003) and by perception and experiencing of positive (15%) and negative (13%) mental states (by the SEHW questionnaire, Džuka & Dalbert, 2002). Thus, the emotional intelligence trait as a consistent construct partially captures individual variability of emotional aspects otherwise scattered across personality theories.

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