VALIDATION OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETENCE INVENTORY (ESCI) ACROSS PAKISTANI HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

For more than 20 years, emotions were not consider as integral part of intelligence as discussed by earlier philosophers from Greek and Romans. They consider emotions as rationality based on unpredictable nature. Hence it arise many questions about the employees emotional intelligence feeling across the world. In current research study ESCI construct is validated among faculty members of KP universities. As ESCI is not used so far in the educational institutions, hence it validations will open new ways of understanding the concept related to employees emotional intelligence in higher education sector. For this drive, data is obtained from 500 faculty members from different universities and the response was assessed by CFA via AMOS software. Results indicate that ESCI construct consist of four important clusters with multi-dimensions having number of items. Results of the current study suggest that the newly adapted version of ESCI with 11 factors (44 items) applied in Pakistan higher education institutions having good results linked to psychometric attributes and to asses employees’ emotional intelligence level.