Gözden Geçirilmiş Schutte Duygusal Zekâ Ölçeğinin Türkçe'ye Uyarlanması ve Psikometrik Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Objective: Although emotional intelligence is not a new term, as a conceptual framework it is relatively new and measurement devices are rather few. The projection of this situation to Turkish literature is not different. Therefore, in this study it was aimed to adapt Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Schutte, Malouff, Hall, Haggerty, Cooper, Golden, Dornheim, (1998) (33 item) and revised by Austin, Saklofske, Huang, McKenney, (2004) (41 item) into Turkish. Method: After the translation of the scale into Turkish, 1022 female (58.6%) and 721 male (41.4%) a total of 1743 subjects ranging in age from 17 to 78 completed the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale. Results: The examination of the three factor structure of the scale by explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that the results were consistent with those reported by Austin et al. (2004). The Cronbach-Alfa internal consistency coefficient for the entire scale was 0.82 and for subscales were 0.75, 0.39 and 0.76. Test- retest reliability for the entire scale by one week found to be (n=88) r=0.49, and by two weeks it was (n=85) r=0.56. To examine scale’s discriminant validity, the Five Factor Personality Inventory was administered to 100 subjects besides the Emotional Intelligence Scale. Results indicated that there were significant correlations between the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale and the personality traits ranging from -0.29 to 0.34. Emotional intelligence scores for the entire scale were compared in terms of gender, age and educational level. Results showed that females had significantly higher emotional intelligence scores than males and as the level of education increased the scores of emotional intelligence increased. Conclusion: The results indicate that the Schutte Emotional Intelligence scale can be a reliable and valid instrument for Turkish population. However, further studies are needed to examine factor structure of the scale.