Search

The conceptualization of Emotional Intelligence (EI) has a significant impact on the construct's operationalization and measurement The current study analyses the Situational Test of Emotion Understanding - Brief (STEU-B), a test devised to assess the ability to understand emotional experiences This cross-sectional study includes Rasch Model analysis in a sample of 899 participants from the Portuguese general population, between 14 and 72 years old (M = 22.46) The measure showed adequate psychometric properties, with good global and item fit, and adequate range of item difficulty. Differential item functioning was explored by gender, level of education and age. Divergent and convergent validity were explored with gender, age, and performance in computerized social and complex cognition tasks The current work suggests the STEU-B is a psychometrically sound test that assesses emotional understanding, and it constitutes an important contribution to the diversification of EI-related measures as well as to research aimed at refining our current understanding of emotional understanding and related abilities., Author(s): Carolina da Motta [sup.1] [sup.2] , Paula Castilho [sup.1] , Michele T. Pato [sup.3] , Célia Barreto Carvalho [sup.1] [sup.2] [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.8051.c, 0000 0000 9511 4342, [...]

The Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery (PennCNB) is a measure of performance in 5 broader neurocognitive domains linked to specific brain systems. The current study aims to provide the psychometric properties of the Portuguese translation of the test battery, by presenting a confirmatory factor analysis and data on the test sensitivity to gender, effects of age and education in healthy individuals. The Portuguese PennCNB was administered to a sample of 152 healthy participants from the general population. We aimed to confirm the PennCNB latent structure of the Efficiency Scores (Accuracy and Speed combined) according to a 4-factor behavioral trait model. Gender differences and the effect of age and education on test performance were analyzed. The 4-factor model presented a good fit. Males and females showed different trends in performance on specific tests, although differences in efficiency scores were non-significant. Education and age showed a weak effect on efficiency scores, affecting participants' performance differently across domains. Findings indicate that PennCNB test scores were related to their target domains, maintained their integrity in comparison to similar studies, and thus, constitutes an effective and versatile tool for clinical and multi-site research studies., Author(s): Carolina da Motta [sup.1] [sup.2] , Célia Barreto Carvalho [sup.1] [sup.2] , Paula Castilho [sup.1] , Michele T. Pato [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.8051.c, 0000 0000 9511 4342, Center [...]