The validity of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale in a Chinese sample: Tests of measurement invariance and latent mean differences across gender and age
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Abstract
The Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) is one of the most widely used measures of trait emotional intelligence. The aim of this study was to examine measurement equivalence and latent mean differences of the WLEIS across gender and age groups. The sample consisted of 1160 Chinese individuals aged 13–40 years. Confirmation factor analysis (CFA) replicated the original four-factor model previously found in other studies. Importantly, the multi-group CFA revealed that configural, metric and scalar invariance across gender and age groups were supported. Moreover, latent mean scores on the WLEIS subscales were comparable across gender and age groups. The implications of these findings are discussed in light of existing literature in the field.
Wong and Law情绪智力量表(WLEIS)是最广泛使用的特质情绪智力测量方法之一。本研究的目的是检验WLEIS在性别和年龄组之间的测量等效性和潜在平均差异。样本包括1160名年龄在13-40岁之间的中国人。确认因子分析(CFA)复制了先前在其他研究中发现的原始四因素模型。重要的是，多组CFA显示，跨性别和年龄组的构型、度量和标量不变性得到了支持。此外，WLEIS亚量表的潜在平均得分在性别和年龄组之间具有可比性。这些发现的含义是讨论在现有的文献在该领域的光。
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Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.
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