Development and preliminary validation of an emotional self-efficacy scale

Title
Development and preliminary validation of an emotional self-efficacy scale
Publication Date
2008
Author(s)
Kirk, Beverley Anne
Schutte, Nicola
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3294-7659
Email: nschutte@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nschutte
Hine, Donald William
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-7026
Email: dhine@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dhine
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.010
UNE publication id
une:3303
Abstract
Building on research in the areas of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy, a measure of emotional self-efficacy was developed and validated. Two hundred and seven participants rated their self-efficacy for adaptive emotional functioning as operationalized by the facets of (Mayer and Salovey, 1997) and (Mayer et al., 2004) model of emotional intelligence and completed measures of constructs expected to be related to emotional self-efficacy. Items grouped into a one-component solution, and the internal consistency of the scale based on this solution was .96. Two week test–retest reliability was .85. High emotional self-efficacy was associated with greater dispositional emotional intelligence, greater performance emotional intelligence, higher positive mood and lower negative mood. Emotional self-efficacy showed evidence of incremental predictive validity in that it remained associated with positive and negative mood after dispositional emotional intelligence was controlled and with positive mood after performance emotional intelligence was controlled.
Link
Citation
Personality and Individual Differences, 45(5), p. 432-436
ISSN
1873-3549
0191-8869
Start page
432
End page
436

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