Geneva Emotional Competence Test.

GECo

What it measures

Ability EI for the workplace - emotion recognition (video clips), emotion understanding, emotion regulation in oneself, emotion management in others (situational judgment of work scenarios)

Length and format

~110 (across the subtests); ~50 minutes online. performance/ability - video emotion-recognition + work-scenario situational judgment; IRT-scored against a key (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Online platform; English + French and other language versions via the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences

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

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Schlegel, K., & Mortillaro, M. (2019). The Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECo): An ability measure of workplace emotional intelligence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(4), 559-580. https://www.unige.ch/cisa/emotional-competence/home/research-tools/geco

https://www.unige.ch/cisa/emotional-competence/home/research-tools/geco