European Psychologist Emotional Intelligence:

The paper describes the construction and the construct validation of an extensive test battery for use in the selection process in business and business education. It is based on notions of social competence and emo-tional intelligence (El) in broad senses of the terms. Participants were 226 persons who had applied for admittance to the undergraduate pro-gram of the Stockholm School of Economics. Many indices were con-structed on the basis of their test responses. In a second-order factor analysis, four factors were identified: mental stability, emotional intelli-gence proper, dominance (including creativity and mental energy), and compulsiveness. These factors were related to emotional skills and to standard personality scales (Big Five, MPI, and Myers-Briggs scales), as well as to scales measuring risk-taking attitudes and variables measuring response styles. It was found that the secondary factors were less subject