Open AccessThe Overlap Between Emotional Intelligence and Post-Industrial Leadership Capacity: A Construct Validity Analysis
Author(s) -
David M. Rosch,
Dana L. Joseph,
Daniel Aureliano Newman
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of leadership education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1552-9045
DOI - 10.12806/v10/i1/rf5
Subject(s) - emotional intelligence , psychology , competence (human resources) , confirmatory factor analysis , emotional competence , social psychology , applied psychology , structural equation modeling , mathematics , statistics
A sample of 276 students enrolled in campus leadership programs completed the Emotional Competence Inventory-University Edition (ECI-U) and the Socially Responsible Leadership Scale (SRLS) as a means to determine the relatedness in college students of emotional intelligence (EI) to the practice of post-industrial leadership skills. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported current use of subscales within the SRLS and showed that EI and post-industrial leadership skills represent distinct, yet related, constructs. Results also suggest the ECI-U may better represent one overall concept of Emotional Competence rather than four distinct areas of EI. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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