Psychometric Properties of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue)

This chapter presents an introduction to the theory and psychometric properties of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue). We discuss the necessity of conceptualizing the increasing number of faux intelligences as personality traits, rather than as cognitive abilities, and give a detailed description of the TEIQue as the operationalization vehicle for trait emotional intelligence (trait EI or trait emotional self-efficacy). The inventory shows adequate reliability and temporal stability at the global, factor (4), and facet (15) levels. It has a clear and replicable factor structure comprising four distinct, but interrelated, dimensions: Emotionality, Self-control, Sociability, and Wellbeing. Self-other TEIQue correlations are substantial and similar to those observed for the Big Five. Preliminary data are presented for the new adolescent form of the TEIQue (TEIQue-AFF), which also shows satisfactory psychometric characteristics. This chapter focuses predominantly on the psychometric properties of the full form of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue; Petrides, 2001; Petrides & Furnham, 2003). Due to lack of space, we do not discuss the short, child, and 3608 forms or any translations, although we present some descriptive data on the new adolescent form (TEIQue-AFF). More importantly, we only briefly discuss in this chapter the theory of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI or trait emotional self-efficacy), which underpins those instruments and distinguishes them from the large number of other measures currently available. Although there are concrete psychometric advantages of the TEIQue over the SPB-140393 5 February 6, 2009 Time: 19:38 Proof 1 K.V. Petrides (*) Department of Psychology, University College London (UCL), 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK e-mail: [email protected] This research was supported by grant SGS-33965 from the Nuffield Foundation. All TEIQue forms and versions are available, free of charge, for research purposes from www.psychometriclab.com C. Stough et al. (eds.), Assessing Emotional Intelligence, The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality, DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-88370-0_5, Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42