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Tumasjan, Andranik; Welpe, Isabell; Stich, Jennifer; Spörrle, Matthias und Försterling, Friedrich (April 2005): Empirical competence-testing: A psychometric examination of the German version of the Emotional Competence Inventory. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Regensburg, 04.04-06.04.2005. Lange, K.W.; Bäuml, K.-H.; Greenlee, M.W.; Hammerl, M. und Zimmer, A. (Hrsg.): In: Experimentelle Psychologie. Beiträge zur 47.Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. [PDF, 217kB]

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Abstract

The “Emotional Competence Inventory“ (ECI 2.0) by Goleman and Boyatzis assesses emotional intelligence (EI) in organizational context by means of 72 items in 4 clusters (self-awareness, self- management, social awareness, social skills) which at large consist of 18 competencies. Our study examines the psychometric properties of the first German translation of this instrument in two different surveys (N = 236). If all items are included in reliability analysis the ECI is reliable (Cronbach’s Alpha = .90), whereas the reliability of the four sub dimensions is much smaller (Alpha = .62 - .81). For 43 items the corrected item-total correlation with its own scale is higher than correlations with the other three clusters. Convergent validity was examined by using another EI instrument (Wong & Law, 2002). We found a significant correlation between the two instruments (r = .41). The German version of the ECI seems to be quite useful, although the high reliability is achieved by a large number of items. Possibilities of improvement are discussed.

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