ECER

European Conference on
Educational Research

7 - 10 September 2005
DUBLIN
 Emotional Intelligence an
Empirical Work

By:
Dr. Carmen Ferrándiz (Murcia University)
Mercedes Ferrando (Murcia University)
Dr. Rosario Bermejo (Alicante University)
Dr. Lola Prieto (Murcia University)
 Thorndike (1921) identified facet of ‘social intelligence’

1983. Concept subsumed under Gardner’s

MI model Intra- Inter-personal intelligences

1985, Emotional Quotient, Bar-On

Historical
1990: Mayer and Salovey

Backgroung
coin the term ‘emotional
intelligence’

1995: Goleman publishes

Emotional Intelligence and
popularized the term
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The four branches of
Emotional Intelligence
Salovey & Mayer (1990)

BRANCH
DESCRIPTION OF SKILLS INVOLVED
NAME
The abilitiy to perceive emotions in oneself &
Perceiving others as well as in objects, art, stories, music
Emotions
INTELLIGENCE

& other stimuli

EMOTIONAL

The ability to generate, use & feel emotion as

Facilitating necessary to comunicate feelings or employ
Thought them in other cognitive processes
The ability to understand emotional information ho
Understanding
emotions combine & progress through relationship
Emotions transition & to appreciate such emotional meaning

The ability to be open to feelings & to modulate the

Managingin oneself & others so as to promote personal
Emotionsunderstanding & growth
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Daniel Goleman (1995)

The Emotional Competence Framework

1. Self-Awareness

2. Self-Regulation Personal Competence

(relates to ouselves)
3. Motivation

4. Empathy Social Competence

(relates to others)
5. Social Skill
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Reuven BarOn (1985)

Intrapersonal

Interpersonal General Mood

Emotional
Intelligence

Stress
Adaptability Management
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OUR STUDY
 Aims
 Sample
 Instruments
 Procedure
 Results
 Conclusions
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OUR STUDY
AIMS

R eliability of Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire

R elation between Emotional Intelligence and IQ test

R elation between Emotional Intelligence and Multiple

Intelligences

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98 students (from 7 until 8 years old) belonging to three different

SAMPLE schools of the provinces of Murcia and Alicante (Spain).

INSTRUMENTS
IQ test (Battery of General and Differential Aptitudes)

Multiple Intelligences
Evaluation Activities Spectrum Project

Self-awareness
60 items with 4 options of answer
Emotional Intelligence Self-control (never,
Emotional profitability something,
Questionnaire Emphaty almost always,
Chiriboga and Franco (2001) Social Ability always)
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Results
Reliability of EI The Kappa internal consistency coefficient by
Questionnaire Cronbach offering a value of .7409

R elation between EI & IQ No relation between them

Relation between EI & Multiple Intelligences No relation between them

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Relation between EI & IQ

Correlations
Self-cons Self-cont Emo Prof Empathy Social Abi IQ
Self-cons 1
Self-cont .204 1
Emo Prof .315** .463** 1
Empathy .368 .358** .442** 1
Social Abi .161 .274* .401** .178 1
IQ .111 .137 .132 .096 .074 1
** The correlation is significant at level of 0.01 (bilateral)
* The correlation is significant at level of 0.05 (bilateral)

rson’s correlation coefficients between the emotional intelligence scale and the general cognitive level
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Relation between EI & Multiple Intelligences

Correlations
Naturalistic Corporal Linguistic Mathematic Musical Spatial

Self-Consc. ,024 ,043 ,164 ,135 ,025 ,167

Self-Control ,077 ,025 ,040 ,041 -,100 ,023
Emotional prof. ,051 ,123 ,013 ,244* -,101 ,045

Empathy ,035 -,011 -,085 ,168 ,039 -,101

Social ability ,202 ,182 -,051 ,144 -,010 -,012
** The correlation is significant at level 0,01 bilateral.
* The correlation is significant at level 0,05 bilateral.
Pearson’s correlation coefficients between the emotional intelligence questionnaire and the Multiple
Intelligences activities of Gardner.
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Conclusions
Reliability of EI instrument

The questionnaire used for this measuring has presented

suitable psychometric characteristics

Relation of EI with another intelligence construct (IQ & Multiple Intelligence)

It seems that Emotional Intelligence is an independent construct

element from General Intelligence (IQ) and Multiple Intelligences.

The Emotional Intelligence is a construct that still requires

research and deepening, and according to the results of some
researches done in the same subject show its importance
within the study of social and intellectual human competence.
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Thank You
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