Emotional Intelligence Skills Questionnaire (chinese Version) Trial Report

In this research, we reviewed some theories of emotional intelligence, and introduced the theory put forward by Salovey & Mayer and emotional intelligence skills framework constructed by Nelson & Low in details. Nelson & Low divided emotional intelligence into thirteen skills such as assertion, anger control and management, fear control and management, comfort, empathy, decision making, leadership, drive strength, time management, commitment ethic, positive personal change, self esteem and stress management. On the basis of the framework, they developed Questionnaire of Emotional Intelligence Skills (English version). We translated it into Chinese. The questionnaire indirectly measured anger control and management, fear control and management and positive personal change by three subtests (aggression, deference and change orientation) .At the same time, other ten subtests directly measured ten emotional intelligence skills.1398 high students and college students from Shanghai and Sandong province have entered the measurement of the questionnaire (Chinese version). In order to collect evidences of validity, we administrated Raven Matrix test and Cattell 16 PF. Teachers have assessed the academic scores of the students. After two month we retested 50 college students with the questionnaire. The result illustrated that,1 The reliability and the validity of the instrument were very ideal.2 Using confirmatory factor analysis, fit indexes confirmed the construct validity of the instrument.3 Skills of emotional intelligence had a high correlation with mental health, but there is no much relationship between skills and traditional intelligence, academic achievement in school.4 With the difference of age stage , sex and area, there were diversities in the skills development.We obtained standard scores by T score formula, then transformed them into ratio scores. The profiles of emotional intelligence skills and potential problems could vividly describe the developmental level of emotional intelligence. The development of skills is unique to individuals, so we analyzed three development model with three typical cases. The three models were balanced and high, balanced and low, unbalanced.