EXAMINING THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE SCHUTTE’S SELF REPORT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCES SCALE (SREIS)

Nurul-Azza Abdullah

Abstract


Emotional intelligence is an usually used in order to measure an individual’s effectiveness. One of the instruments that is used to measure emotional intelligence is Schutte’s Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Survey (SREIS). The main objective of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of SREIS. A set of SREIS was distributed to 152 undergraduate psychology students from a public university in Malaysia. Other than SREIS, Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) by Krapu was also used in this study. In evaluating reliability, alpha cronbach was used, and criterion and construct validity methods were used to test its validity. Results obtained showed that Schutte’s SREIS was valid to be used in Malaysia and using principle component analysis, six components were extracted with 49% variance. The SREIS also showed good criterion validity from the significant correlations with the Life Satisfaction Scale. In addition to that, the result of reliability were satisfactory with alpha cronbach ranging from 0.55 to 0.85 for all the dimensionsEmotional intelligence is an usually used in order to measure an individual’s effectiveness. One of the instruments that is used to measure emotional intelligence is Schutte’s Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Survey (SREIS). The main objective of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of SREIS. A set of SREIS was distributed to 152 undergraduate psychology students from a public university in Malaysia. Other than SREIS, Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) by Krapu was also used in this study. In evaluating reliability, alpha cronbach was used, and criterion and construct validity methods were used to test its validity. Results obtained showed that Schutte’s SREIS was valid to be used in Malaysia and using principle component analysis, six components were extracted with 49% variance. The SREIS also showed good criterion validity from the significant correlations with the Life Satisfaction Scale. In addition to that, the result of reliability were satisfactory with alpha cronbach ranging from 0.55 to 0.85 for all the dimensions

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