Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test - SSEIT

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 07, 2014

Last Modified: January 16, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SREIT) - also referred to as the the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scales (SEIS)/Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT)-

As described in:

Schutte, N.S., Malouff, J.M., Hall, L.E., Haggerty, D.J., Cooper, J.T., Golden, C.J., & Dornheim, L. (1998). Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 167-177.

Normed Data based on: Nicola S. Schutte , John M. Malouff , Chad Bobik , Tracie D. Coston , Cyndy Greeson , Christina Jedlicka , Emily Rhodes & Greta Wendorf (2001). Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Relations, The Journal of Social Psychology, 141:4, 523-536, DOI: 10.1080/00224540109600569

To link to this article: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224540109600569

Duration

3 minutes

Overview

Participants work on 33 likert-type questions with 5 answer choices.

Instructions

Surveypage instructions can be edited under Editable Parameters -> parameters.pageinstructions

NORMED DATA (see Schutte et al, 2001)

Emotional Intelligence:
mean SD N
Exp1 126.88 12.18 24
Exp2 142.51 9.46 37
Exp3 132.84 12.37 77
Exp4 131.61 14.23 38
Exp5 131.56 15.67 43
total N 219

=> weighted Mean = 133.36 => estimate for population mean for Emotional Intelligence Score
=> weighted SD = 12.83 => estimate for population standard deviation of Emotional Intelligence Scores

Scoring

• 33 questions with 5-point Likert scales
1 = "Strongly\nDisagree"
2 = "Disagree"
3 = "Neither Agree nor Disagree"
4 = "Agree"
5 = "Strongly\nAgree"

for reversed questions (5, 28, 33) the scoring is reversed.

• The individual anchors (and number of anchors) can be edited under section QUESTIONS
(the changes need to be made for each radiobutton question). Only anchor 1 and 5
are original (the middle anchors were filled it by Millisecond).
• a totalscore is calculated and saved in the summary data file
• by default the questions are required to answer; to change go to section QUESTIONS

Summary Data

File Name: sseit_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
popMean Weighted mean for Emotional Intelligence across 5 experiments (Schutte et al, 2001) used as estimate for population mean = 133.36
popSD Weighted standard deviation for Emotional Intelligence across 5 experiments (Schutte et al, 2001) used as estimate for population standard deviation = 12.83
sseitTotalScore The sum of all response scores
z Z-score of totalscore (uses weighted mean/weighted standard deviation based on 5 studies reported by Schutte et al, 2001,
as estimates for population mean and standard deviation)
percentile Percentile rank based on z-score
+ individual responses

Raw Data

File Name: sseit.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
1 = "Strongly\nDisagree"
2 = "Disagree"
3 = "Neither Agree nor Disagree"
4 = "Agree"
5 = "Strongly\nAgree"
for reversed questions "R" (5, 28, 33): the scale automatically reverses
q*_latency How much time the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular question
(the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
pageInstructions The instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage
popMean Weighted mean for Emotional Intelligence across 5 experiments (Schutte et al, 2001) used as estimate for population mean = 133.36
popSD Weighted standard deviation for Emotional Intelligence across 5 experiments (Schutte et al, 2001) used as estimate for population standard deviation = 12.83