The dimensionality of emotional intelligence: Evidence for a four-factor model for post-Soviet and Central Asian adolescents
La dimensionalidad de la inteligencia emocional: Evidencia de un modelo de cuatro factores para adolescentes post-soviéticos y de Asia Central
Taibolatov K.M. Courtney M.G.R. Zhapparova A. Hernández-Torrano D.
January - April 2025Universidad de Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones
Anales de Psicologia
2025#41Issue 1105 - 117 pp.
Introduction: The study of emotional intelligence (EI) has garnered significant attention due to its relevance to diverse age-and population-groups, and persons of various social and academic backgrounds. The capacity for an individual to effectively understand and manage one’s own emotions and understand and manage the emotions of others has been identified as important life skill and antecedent to personal, social, and professional success. While the dimensionality of EI has been explored extensively in Western contexts, there is a relative dearth of research in post-Soviet and Central Asian contexts. Methodology: Building upon the EI instrumentation developed in Russia by Lyusin and a large sample of adolescents (N = 658) from 12 schools, we find very little differences in average levels of EI in the schools sampled. Thereafter, using first-order confirmatory factor analysis, this study finds evidence for a Four-Factor Model of EI inclusive of Understanding and Managing One’s Own Emotions, and Understanding and Managing Others’ Emotions. Results: The model exhibits adequate model fit, discriminant validity, inter-factor correlations similar to those in other studies, and is strongly invariant for gender (though partially invariant for language). We also find evidence for female adolescents exhibiting slightly higher levels of Understanding Other’s Emotions, and lower levels of Managing Own Emotions. Conclusions: The four-factor model may be a useful tool for gauging the EI of adolescents, though further research as to its utility in other post-Soviet, Central Asian, and other contexts is required.
Central Asia , Emotional intelligence , Emotional perception , Kazakhstan , Personality traits
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Department of Personal Development and Education, Toraighyrov University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Institutional Research & Analytics, Office of the Provost, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Research and Data Analysis Department, Center for Pedagogical Measurements under AEO “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools”, Kazakhstan
Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Department of Personal Development and Education
Institutional Research & Analytics
Research and Data Analysis Department
Graduate School of Education
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