Abstract
Pérez-González and Sánchez-Ruiz (2014) published a study in which they found that trait emotional intelligence can be considered a broad personality trait integrated into the higher levels of a multi-level personality hierarchy. They also came to the conclusion that this construct can be considered a proxy for the general factor of personality. The purpose of this study is to try to replicate their study. We follow the same methodology these authors used but with a new sample, and a different definition of trait emotional intelligence and therefore a different measurement tool. Our results show convergent validity between trait emotional intelligence and personality, but not discriminant validity, suggesting than trait emotional intelligence is not integrated in the higher level of the personality hierarchies, but it is another way to measure the same big five personality traits that traditionally compose the construct of personality. We also found that trait emotional intelligence highly correlated with the general personality factor, but additionally we found an extremely high negative correlation between those two constructs and neuroticism. This finding suggest that they may represent above all just the absence of neuroticism in a person.
Highlights
Personality is traditionally studied in terms of human traits, and the most popular classification of personality traits is the well know Big Five (B5) or Five Factor Model (Goldberg, 1981; Costa and McCrae, 1987, 1992)
The five personality components correlated with trait EI, and second, each of the B5 personality traits predicted trait EI except for agreeableness, with a shared variance of 57%
The B5 personality traits correlated with trait EI, and they predicted it
Summary
Personality is traditionally studied in terms of human traits, and the most popular classification of personality traits is the well know Big Five (B5) or Five Factor Model (Goldberg, 1981; Costa and McCrae, 1987, 1992). About 20 years ago, because of the use of statistical factor analysis, those B5 traits were grouped in two bigger personality factors (B2; Digman, 1997): one that Digman termed Alpha and that DeYoung et al (2002) renamed as Stability encompasses the personality traits of agreeableness -A, conscientiousness -C, and neuroticism -N. De Young and colleagues have been able to find support for the existence of these two-factors in different studies (DeYoung et al, 2002, 2007), and so has done Saucier (2010). The model replicates reliably across cultures and languages (Saucier et al, 2014).
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