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Emotional and social intelligence

Situational Test of Emotional Comprehension / Emotion-understanding SJTs (workplace-adapted).

STEU-workplace / SEC

What it measures
Ability EI - emotional understanding/comprehension assessed via situational judgment, including workplace-specific adaptations of the STEU paradigm
Length and format
~19-42 (depending on adaptation). multiple-choice situational judgment; scored against an appraisal-theory-derived or expert key (situational judgment test)
Language versions
Several language and context (e.g. workplace) adaptations of the STEU/STEM family
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
MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2008). New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence. Emotion, 8(4), 540-551. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18729584/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18729584/

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