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Emotional and social intelligence

Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire.

ESCQ

What it measures
trait/self-report emotional intelligence (Mayer-Salovey model) - Perceiving and Understanding emotion, Expressing and Labelling emotion, and Managing and Regulating emotion
Length and format
45 (3 subscales). 5-point frequency (1 never to 5 always); subscale + total sums (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
validated in 20+ countries/languages incl. HR, SL, ES, PT, SE, FI, ZH, PL
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Taksic, V., Mohoric, T., & Duran, M. (2009). Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ) as a self-report measure of emotional intelligence. Psiholoska Obzorja, 18(3), 7-21.

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