Profile of Emotional Competence.
PEC
- What it measures
- Emotional competence across 5 core competencies (identification, understanding, expression, regulation, use of emotion) x 2 targets (own vs others' emotions) = 10 subscales, plus intrapersonal/interpersonal/global EC
- Length and format
- 50 (full); Short PEC (S-PEC) = 20. 5-pt Likert (does not describe me at all - describes me perfectly) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple languages (French original + English, plus Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.); used internationally in EI/emotional-competence research
- 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
- Brasseur, S., et al. (2013). The Profile of Emotional Competence (PEC). PLOS ONE, 8(5), e62635. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062635
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