Abstract

PEIXOTO, Isaías; MUNIZ, Monalisa; MIGUEL, Fabiano Koich  and  BUENO, José Maurício Haas. Evidences of validity for the emotional understanding test. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.71, n.3, pp.184-199. ISSN 1809-5267.  https://doi.org/10.36482/1809-5267.ARBP2019v71i3p.184-199.

Emotional understanding is characterized as a branch of Emotional Intelligence (EI). The Emotional Understanding Test (TCE) was built to evaluate this construct and the following research was conducted to search for evidence of validity related to other variables in the instrument. The selected variables were: emotion perception (PEP), difficulty in emotion regulation (DERS), fluid intelligence (RA and RV), gender and age. Evidence of validity for the TCE was found for the variables: gender, in which women had better results than men; fluid intelligence, with weak and moderate positive correlations; perception of emotions, with significant positive correlation; and distorted perception of emotions and emotional dysregulation, with negative correlations and close to zero. This contributes to a better understanding of the sociodemographic and emotional characteristics associated to EI.

Keywords : Emotional intelligence; Emotional understanding; Psychological tests; Psychological assessment.

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