MSCEIT emotional intelligence test: description, validization and adaptation

Abstract

The article presents the description and results of adaptation of the test of determining the level of emotional intelligence MSCEIT (The Mayer-Salovey-Caruzo. Emotional Intelligence Test), American researchers J. Mayer, P. Salovey and D. Caruso, based at the National University «Lviv Polytechnic» in order to use this technique in further studies of the impact of this indicator on the productivity of employees. The choice of the specified technique among the existing objective test methods is substantiated. The test was developed by the authors based on their own four-component structural model of abilities as an objective test of emotional intelligence. This technique covers two subtests for each component of emotional intelligence of this concept. The MSCEIT emotional intelligence test was adapted according to standard algorithms for adapting foreign language psychodiagnostic tools: the English version was translated into Ukrainian, retest reliability, reliability of parallel forms and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) were tested. A comparison of the results of the general sample of students and specialists in psychological and economic specialties (N = 468) and a sample of experts consisting of a doctor of psychological sciences and candidates of psychological and economic sciences who are researchers of emotional intelligence (N = 10). Testing was conducted by filling out blank test forms and calculating the results obtained by consensus and expert methods, respectively. Based on the results of the testing, a set of keys for the adapted MSCEIT test was obtained. The retest reliability study was conducted three weeks later. The reliability of parallel forms was carried out using the methods of subjective survey of D. Goleman and M. Hall. The high level of subjectivity of methods in the form of questionnaires determines the dependence of the results obtained on the level of self-esteem. In order to confirm the reliability of the results of the reliability of parallel forms, a study of the level of self-esteem of the sample of individuals using the method of «I am real» and «I am ideal».