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Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence

Abstract

An intelligence must meet several standard criteria before it can be considered scientifically legitimate. First, it should be capable of being operationalized as a set of abilities. Second, it should meet certain correlational criteria: the abilities defined by the intelligence should form a related set (i.e., be intercorrelated), and be related to pre-existing intelligences, while also showing some unique variance. Third, the abilities of the intelligence should develop with age and experience. In two studies, adults (N=503) and adolescents (N=229) took a new, 12-subscale ability test of emotional intelligence: the Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS). The present studies show that emotional intelligence, as measured by the MEIS, meets the above three classical criteria of a standard intelligence.

Department

Psychology

Publication Date

12-1-1999

Journal Title

Intelligence

Publisher

Elsevier

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2896(99)00016-1

Document Type

Article

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