Cross-cultural validation of the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ)

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the cross-cultural validation of the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ), consisting of 45 items divided into three subscales – (i) perceiving and understanding emotion (PU), (ii) expressing and labeling emotion (EL), and (iii) managing and regulating emotion (MR) –, as well as being classified as a “trait emotional intelligence” or “perceived emotional intelligence” measure. Originally, it was developed in Croatian settings using theoretical framework from the emotional intelligence model (Mayer & Salovey, 1997), however, it has been translated into English and presented, in 2001, at the 7th European Congress of Psychology, in London. The psychometric qualities and the relations of ESCQ with several relevant constructs in Croatian, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Slovene, Spanish, and Japanese contexts are presented, using target samples of mainly high school and university students, as well as older subjects (workers and supervisors), evidencing construct, convergent, divergent and concurrent validity. However, the Cronbach alpha of the MR scale needs improvement, stressing the need to pursue the validity studies of the ESCQ.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v20i2.390