Situational Test of Emotional Understanding.
STEU
- What it measures
- Ability EI - emotional understanding (which emotion is most likely to result from a described situation; appraisal-based reasoning)
- Length and format
- 42 (full); STEU-B brief = 19 items. multiple-choice (choose 1 of 5 emotions); scored against a theory-derived key (Roseman appraisal theory) (situational judgment test)
- Language versions
- Adapted into multiple languages (German, Spanish, Slovak, Chinese, etc.) 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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