Psychometric Properties of the Emotional Literacy Skills Questionnaire
Subject Areas : Psychology
razieh eatesamipour
1
,
Fereshteh Pourmohseni- Koluri
2
1 - Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Psychometric Properties, Emotional Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Adults,
Abstract :
Emotional literacy has been assessed in domestic research using various tools. A review of the research background shows that there is no valid tool in the country that can measure this construct. The present study was conducted with the aim of psychometric properties of the emotional literacy skills questionnaire. The research method was a descriptive correlational type and the statistical population of the present study included all adults aged 20-60 years throughout Iran in 1402 who responded to the Schering (1996) Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Literacy Skills (ELSS) questionnaires on virtual messengers. Among them, 808 people were selected as the research sample. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed the existence of three factors that explained a total of 40% of the total variance of the scale. The confirmatory factor analysis was conducted and the results of exploratory factor analysis. The reliability coefficient was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method, which was calculated for the first factor or emotional self-awareness, the second factor or social skills, and the third factor or emotional self-regulation, respectively, as 0.82, 0.80, and 0.71, and the total score of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.65. The findings also showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between the components of emotional literacy and emotional intelligence, which indicates the convergent validity of the emotional literacy questionnaire (p<0.01). According to the findings, it can be said that the Persian version of the emotional literacy scale has appropriate validity and reliability for measuring the emotional literacy skills of adults.