Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale.

MEIS

What it measures

Ability EI (four-branch model) - the precursor performance battery to the MSCEIT; perceiving, assimilating, understanding, managing emotions

Length and format

~402 items across 12 subscale tasks (long). performance/ability (multiple stimuli: faces, music, stories, etc.); consensus- and expert-scored (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Some research adaptations (e.g. used internationally before MSCEIT superseded it)

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

Mayer, J. D., Caruso, D. R., & Salovey, P. (1999). Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence. Intelligence, 27(4), 267-298.