EI Newsletter
Emotional Intelligence - Construct Validity

Ashkanasy, N. M. & Daus, C. S. (2005). Rumors of the death of emotional intelligence in organizational behavior are vastly exaggerated. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 441- 452.

Austin, E.J., Saklofske, D.H., & Egan, V. (2005). Personality, well-being and health correlates of trait emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 38 (3), 547-558.

Barchard, K.A., & Christensen, M. M. (2007). Dimensionality and higher-order factor structure of self-reported emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(6), 971-985.

Bastian, V.A., Burns, N.R., & Nettelbeck, T. (2005). Emotional intelligence predicts life skills, but not as well as personality and cognitive abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(6), 1135-1145.

Brackett, M.A., Mayer, J.D., & Warner, R.M. (2004). Emotional intelligence and its relation to everyday behaviour. Personality and Individual Differences, 36(6), 1387-1402.

Brackett, M.A. & Mayer, J.D. (2003). Convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of competing measures of emotional intelligence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1147-1158.

Caruso, D. R., Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (2002). Relation of an ability measure of emotional intelligence to personality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 79(2), 306-320.

Chapman, B.P. & Hayslip, J.B. (2005). Incremental validity of a measure of emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality Assessment, 85(2), 154-169.

Ciarrochi, J. V., Chan, A. Y. C. & Caputi, P. (2000). A critical evaluation of the emotional intelligence construct. Personality & Individual Differences, 28(3), 539-561.

Daus, C. S. & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2005). The case for the ability-based model of emotional intelligence in organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 453-466.

Davies, M., Stankov, L., & Roberts, R. D. (1998). Emotional Intelligence: In search of an elusive construct. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 989-1015.

Day, A.L., Therrien, D.L., & Carroll, S.A. (2005). Predicting psychological health: assessing the incremental validity of emotional intelligence beyond personality, Type A behaviour, and daily hassles. European Journal of Personality, 19(6), 519-536.

Extremera, N. & Fernandez-Berrocal, P. (2005). Perceived emotional intelligence and life satisfaction: Predictive and incremental validity using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(5), 937-948.

Fox, S., & Spector, P. E. (2000). Relations of emotional intelligence, practical intelligence, general intelligence, and trait affectivity with interview outcomes: It's not all just 'G'. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 203-220.

Freudenthaler, H. H. & Neubauer, A. C. (2005). Emotional intelligence: The convergent and discriminant validities of intra- and interpersonal emotional abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(3), 569-579.

Gannon, N. & Ranzijn, R. (2005). Does emotional intelligence predict unique variance in life satisfaction beyond IQ and personality? Personality and Individual Differences, 38(6), 1353-1364.

Gratch, J., Marsella, S., & Mao, W. (2006). Towards a validated model of "emotional intelligence." Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 21(2), 1613-1616.

Hemmati, T., Mills, J. F., & Kroner, D. G. (2004). The validity of the Bar-On emotional intelligence quotient in an offender population. Personality and Individual Differences, 37(4), 695-706.

Law, K. S., Wong, C. S., & Song, L. J. (2004). The construct and criterion validity of emotional intelligence and its potential utility for management studies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(3), 483-496.

Livingstone, H.A. & Day, A.L. (2005). Comparing the construct and criterion-related validity of ability-based and mixed-model measures of emotional intelligence. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65(5), 851-873.

Locke, E. A. (2005). Why emotional intelligence is an invalid concept. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 425-431.

Palmer, B., Donaldson, C., & Stough, C. (2002). Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. Personality & Individual Differences, 33(7), 1091-1100.

Palmer, B., Gignac, G., Bates, T., & Stough, C. (2003). Examining the structure of the trait meta-mood scale. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55(3), 154-154(5).

Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence: Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait taxonomies. European Journal of Personality, 15(6), 425-448.

Petrides, K. V., Pérez-González, J. C., & Furnham, A. (2007). On the criterion and incremental validity of trait emotional intelligence. Cognition & Emotion, 21(1), 26-55.

Roberts, R. D., Zeidner, M., & Matthews, G. (2001). Does emotional intelligence meet traditional standards for an “intelligence”? Some new data and conclusions. Emotion, 1, 196-231.

Roberts, R. D., Schulze, R., O’Brien, K., MacCann, C., Reid, J., & Maul, A. (2006). Exploring the validity of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) with established emotions measures. Emotion, 6, 663-669.

Schneider, T.R., Lyons, J.B., & Williams, M. (2005). Emotional intelligence and autonomic self-perception: Emotional abilities are related to visceral acuity. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(5), 853-861.

Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., Simunek, M., McKenley, J., & Hollander, S. (2002). Characteristic emotional intelligence and emotional well-being. Cognition & Emotion, 16(6), 769-785.

Schutte, N. S., Malouff, J. M., Bobik, C., Coston, T. D., Greeson, C., Jedlicka, C., Rhodes, E., Wendorf, G. (2001). Emotional intelligence and interpersonal relations. Journal of Social Psychology, 141(4), 523-536.

Shulman, T. & Hemenover, S. (2006). Is dispositional emotional intelligence synonymous with personality? Self and Identity, 5(2), 147-171.

Spence, G., Oades, L. G., & Caputi, P. (2004). Trait emotional intelligence and goal self-integration: important predictors of emotional well-being? Personality and Individual Differences, 37(3), 449-461.

Tett, R.P. & Fox, K.E. (2006). Confirmatory factor structure of trait emotional intelligence in
student and worker samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(6), 1155-1168.

van der Zee, K., Thijs, M., & Schakel, L. (2002). The relationship of emotional intelligence with academic intelligence and the Big Five. European Journal of Personality, 16(2), 103-125.

van der Zee, K. & Wabeke, R. (2004). Is trait-emotional intelligence simply or more than just a trait? European Journal of Personality, 18(4), 243.

Van Rooy, D.L., Viswesvaran, C., Pluta, P. (2005). An evaluation of construct validity: What is this thing called emotional intelligence? Human Performance, 18(4), 445-462.

Van Rooy, D. L. & Viswesvaran, C. (2004). Emotional intelligence: A meta-analytic investigation of predictive validity and nomological net. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65(1), 71-95.

Zeidner, M., Matthews, G., & Roberts, R. D. (2001). Slow down, you move too fast: Emotional Intelligence remains an “elusive” intelligence. Emotion, 1, 265-275.