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Factor Structure of the Emotional Skills and Competences Questionnaire (ESCQ) in Cross-cultural University Sudents Sample

The Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ) operationalizes emotional intelligence as a personality trait and is a measure of self-reported emotional intelligence developed in the theoretical framework of the Mayer and Salovey four branches model. The ESCQ consists of 45 items measuring participants’ reports in the ability of perceiving and understanding emotions, expressing and labeling emotions, and managing and regulating of emotions. The questionnaire is originally constructed for the high school population. Cross-cultural investigations showed satisfying psychometric properties in Croatian settings, and the author decided to investigate its factor structure in a sample of 4502 university students from 12 countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Japan, China, India, Argentina and USA). The results showed the satisfying factor structure, and that two thirds of the items in the ESCQ in 12 countries follow the original dimensionality of the questionnaire. This investigation showed that items measuring the ability of perceiving and understanding emotions, and items measuring the ability of expressing and labeling emotions in different cultures correspond to those obtained by the author. Furthermore, the results showed a somewhat different arrangement of items measuring the ability of managing and regulating of emotions in comparison to those obtained by the author.

emotional intelligence; factorial structure; cross-cultures

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