Situational Test of Emotion Management.
STEM
- What it measures
- Ability EI - emotion management/regulation (selecting the most effective way to manage anger, sadness, fear, disgust in self/others)
- Length and format
- 44 vignettes (full); STEM-B brief = 18 items. situational judgment (multiple-choice; or rate-effectiveness 5-pt format); scored vs expert/consensus key (situational judgment test)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages (e.g. German, Spanish, Slovak, Chinese research versions); used internationally in EI 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
- MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2008). New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence: Theory and data. Emotion, 8(4), 540-551. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18729584/
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