Multidimensional Emotional Intelligence Assessment - Workplace

Robert P. Tett, Ph.D., Alvin Wang, Ph.D., & Kevin E. Fox, Ph.D. © 2006

The Multidimensional Emotional Intelligence Assessment - Workplace (MEIA-W) is a next-generation assessment of Emotional Intelligence (EI) with several valuable and unique qualities that distinguish it from more traditional measures. The MEIA-W is the only trait-based, self-report measure of EI with distinct coverage of all 10 components of Salovey and Mayer's (1990) influential EI model.

Applications

• Use as part of employee and leadership selection process.
• Use as part of employee and leadership development.
• Use for conducting research on how trait-based emotional intelligence (EI) contributes to job performance and understanding workplace behavior.

Description

Research has demonstrated that the MEIA-W predicts job performance over and above cognitive ability and personality - two top predictors of job performance. This makes the MEIA-W a powerful addition to selection and development toolkits. In addition, the methods of test construction used in the development of the MEIA-W address important shortcomings found in many popular EI assessments. The availability of an "at work" version of the MEIA provides improved validity over other context-neutral EI measures, when used in work settings. Furthermore, the items comprising the MEIA-W were carefully developed, selected, and refined to minimize the influence of social desirability response bias (tendency to present the self in a favorable light) and acquiescence response bias (tendency to endorse personality statements as true of the self), both of which can seriously undermine the validity of test results.

Distinguishing Features

The test construction method used to develop the MEIA-W sets it apart from other EI measures currently available on the market. Some of these unique features include:

• Distinct coverage of all 10 facets of Salovey and Mayer's (1990) influential model of EI.
• Minimized susceptibility to socially desirable responding and acquiescence response bias.
• Documented content validity, construct validity, and incremental validity.
• The use of work-context items has been reported to improve validity in personality tests over more general versions administered in work settings.

MEIA Dimensions

• Recognition of Emotion in the Self
• Regulation of Emotion in the Self
• Recognition of Emotion in Others
• Regulation in Emotion in Others
• Nonverbal Emotional Expression
• Empathy
• Intuition vs. Reason
• Creative Thinking
• Mood Redirected Attention
• Motivating Emotions

Norms

MEIA-W norms are based on the responses of 653 working adults from a variety of job categories.

Reliability

Internal consistency reliabilities (alpha) ranged from .60 - .89 for the ten scales (median = 78.5), indicating good internal consistency.

Validity

Construct Validity

A series of steps was taken to evaluate the validity of the MEIA-W scales. First, each item of the MEIA was judged by independent experts to be representative of its targeted EI scale, which supports the scales' content validity. As well, every item on each scale correlated stronger with all other items on the targeted scale than with total scores on any other scale, including Social Desirability. Additionally, EI scale scores correlated meaningfully with relevant personality scale scores, which supports convergent validity. As well, EI scale scores were uncorrelated with theoretically unrelated personality scale scores, in support of discriminant validity. Finally, EI scale scores showed low to moderate correlations with Social Desirability.

Criterion Validity

A sample of employees from different organizations and various positions were rated on performance by their immediate supervisors. All 10 MEIA-W scales were significantly correlated with at least one rated performance dimension.

Incremental Validity

The MEIA-W contributes uniquely to predicting job performance beyond personality and intelligence.

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