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Investigating the validity of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale in a Nepali student sample

  • Antigonos Sochos
    ,
  • Murari Prasad Regmi
    ,
  • Dess Mardan Basnet
  • Ministry of Co-operative and Poverty Alleviation
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Abstract

This paper investigates the cross‐cultural validity of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale. Two samples of university students were recruited: 504 from a Nepali university and 260 from a UK university. In relation to culture, structural equation modelling analyses provided support for the scale's configural invariance and the configural, metric, and scalar invariance of two if its subscales. Evidence for measurement invariance was also found in relation to gender in both samples. Tentative analyses suggested that the correlation between self and other emotion appraisal was stronger among UK participants and that UK participants scored higher on the Other Emotion Appraisal subscale. No gender differences on emotional intelligence were found in the Nepali sample, while among UK students, males scored higher on Regulation of Emotion and lower on Other Emotion Appraisal than females. In the Nepali sample, science students scored lower on various aspects of emotional intelligence than humanities students.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 573-580

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Asian Journal of Social Psychology (Volume 24, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 21/10/2020
  • Published - 26/11/2020

Publication status

Published - 26/11/2020

ISSN

1367-2223

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624860
  • Scopus: 85096841380

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