RT journal article
T1 Relating emotional intelligence to social competence and academic achievement in high school students
A1 Gil-Olarte Márquez, Paloma
A1 Palomera Martín, Raquel
A1 Brackett, Marc A.
A2 Psicología
K1 Emotional intelligence
K1 personality
K1 general intelligence
K1 social competence
K1 academic performance
AB This study investigated the discriminant, criterion and incremental validity of an ability measure of Emotional Intelligence (EI). High school students (N= 77) took the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test - Spanish Version (MSCEIT V. 2.0, 2002), a measure of Big Five personality traits (BFQ; Caprara, Barbanelli, & Borgogni, 1993), an General Intelligence test (IGF-r 5; Yuste, 2002), and a social competence inventory (AECS; Moraleda, González, & García-Gallo, 1998). Students’ academic grades also were obtained from official school records at the end of the school year. As predicted,the MSCEIT was discriminable from well-established measures of personality and intelligence. The test was also moderately related to social competence and predicted students’ final grades. Most of the findings remained significant after personality and academic intelligence were statistically controlled.The potential utility of EI in the context of academic institutions is discussed.
SN 0214-9915
YR 2006
FD 2006
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30481
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30481
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026