DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

Abstract

Over the decades, it has been assumed that emotional intelligence plays an important role in getting success in human life. Many researches proved and justified that emotional intelligence has remained a significant relationship to behavioural aspects of teachers as well as prospective teachers. Measurement of EI can best be understood in the light of the pioneering works of the EI model. There are three basic models of emotional intelligence as: the Mayer Model, Bar-On Model and Goleman Model. The relationship between teaching and emotional intelligence and lack of any EI measuring tools for prospective teachers necessitated the development of EI scale. So, the objective of the paper was to develop an EI scale for prospective teachers. Study considered common subscales of Goleman’s, Bar-On’s model and teachers’ quality for generating its EI construct (with 9 sub-scale). Researchers studied definitions of each of the dimensions and created 184 concerned items which were finally reduced to 50 items in final draft. In the first phase, drafts of the scale were administered on 200 prospective teachers and in the final phase 100 prospective teachers of eastern Uttar Pradesh were participated in the study. Content validity (CVR>=0.8), inter-rater reliability (0.788 substantial Fleiss’ kappa reliability) and Construct validity (using CFA where CFI & RMSEA were found 0.957 and 0.048 as acceptable fit) were established. Reliability analysis was done using Cronbach’s alpha (0.926) and split-half reliability (0.843) index. Norms were set as above average EI having score higher than 215.7, below average EI having score lower than 177.05 and average EI having score in between 215.7 and 177.05.