Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale.
WLEIS
- What it measures
- Self/mixed EI for the workplace - 4 dimensions: Self-Emotion Appraisal (SEA), Others' Emotion Appraisal (OEA), Use of Emotion (UOE), Regulation of Emotion (ROE)
- Length and format
- 16 (4 per dimension). 7-pt Likert (some adaptations use 5-pt) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Dozens of languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, AR, Turkish, Greek, Colombian-Spanish, etc.); very broad cross-cultural use
- 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
- Wong, C. S., & Law, K. S. (2002). The effects of leader and follower EI on performance and attitude. Leadership Quarterly, 13(3), 243-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-9843(02)00099-1
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