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Emotional Intelligence – Its Validity, Reliability and Utility in Coaching Interventions

Emotional Intelligence – Its Validity, Reliability and Utility in Coaching Interventions
Introduction only of 1000 words…APA 6th edition…include in-text citations and reference list.

Essay Title:

Emotional Intelligence – Its Validity, Reliability and Utility in Coaching Interventions

(This introduction should be a critical review of EI as a construct/theory)

Focus on cover:
• What is emotional intelligence – start with Salovey and Mayers original definition ……then move onto Goleman, Reuben’s and others.., including more current
definitions.
• What are the different definitions of Emotional Intelligence and how do they differ from each other?
• Ask the question can EI actually be measured?
• Look at the different researchers views on this.
• Also, look the researchers assumptions around Emotional Intelligence and critique these e.g. is there an assumption that good leaders have high EI? Is always the
case – use current evidence to discuss (peer review articles) – look at research that disputes the assumptions – evidence based i.e. peer-reviewed articles?
• Explore other assumptions around EI and dispute them with evidence (reference)

Important Factors
• Needs to be written in Australian English and
• All references to be peer reviewed
• Following strictly APA 6th style referencing,
o Including in-text citations.
o Be careful to reference all ideas etc… presented
o No plagiarising.

As a starter references: look at the articles by
• Ashkanasy, N. M., & Daus, C. S. (2005). Rumours of the death of emotional intelligence in organizational behaviour are vastly exaggerated. Journal of Organizational
Behaviour, 26, 441–452 (based on Landy, Locke and Conte critique of EI):
• AND look at the articles it referenced/discussed in Ashkanasy e.g. 1. Landy, 2. Locke and 3. Conte…). Look also at more current articles.
• Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
• Salovey, P. & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 9, 185–211
• Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2003). Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioural validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction.
European Journal of Personality, 17, 39–57.

Some other suggested sources are:
(find issue number for all journal articles used)

Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., Shiffman, S.,
Lerner, N., & Salovey, P. (2006). Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: A comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 780–795.

Burrus, J., Betnacourt, A., Holtzman, S.,
Minsky, J., MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2012). Emotional intelligence relates to well-being: Evidence from the Situational Judgment Test of Emotional Management.
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 4, 151–166.

Chapman, M. (2005). Emotional intelligence and coaching: An exploratory study. In M.

Cavanagh, Grant A. M., & Kemp T., (Eds.), Evidence-based coaching: Theory, research and practice from the behavioural sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 183–192). Bowen Hills, Qld:
Australian Academic Press.

Herrnstein, R. J., & Murray, C. (1994). The Bell curve: Intelligence and class structure in American life. New York, NY: The Free Press.

Joseph, D. L., & Newman, D. A. (2010). Emotional intelligence: An integrative meta-analysis and cascading model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 54–78.

Law, K. S., Wong, C. S., & Song, L. J. (2004). The construct and criterion validity of emotional intelligence and its potential utility for management studies. Journal
of Applied Psychology, 89, 483.

MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2008). New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence: Theory and data. Emotion, 8, 540–551.

MacCann, C., Fogarty, G. J., Zeidner, M., &
Roberts, R. D. (2011). Coping mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and academic achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 36, 60–70.

Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. R. (2002). Mayer–Salovey–Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
users manual. Toronto, Canada: MHS.

Nelis, D., Quoidbach, J., Mikolajczak, M., & Hansenne, M. (2009). Increasing emotional intelligence: (How) is it possible? Personality and Individual Differences, 47
(1), 36–41.

Opengart, R. (2005). Emotional intelligence and emotion work: Examining constructs from an interdisciplinary framework. Human Resource Development Review, 4(1), 49–62.

Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2003). Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioural validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction.
European Journal of Personality, 17, 39–57.

Pool, L. D., & Qualter, P. (2012). Improving emotional intelligence and emotional self-efficacy through a teaching intervention for university students. Learning and
Individual Differences, 22(3), 306–312.

Schutte, N. S., & Malouff, J. M. (2012). Priming ability emotional intelligence. Intelli
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