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Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company
Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/31422 Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company Schaap, Pieter De Franca, Melinda Maria Nobrega UCTD Structural validity Emotional quotient inventory (EQi) Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012. In the world of work, psychological instruments are often used for the purposes of selection and development (Van de Vijver & Rothmann, 2004). According to Van der Merwe (1999), psychological tests are commonly used to determine whether employees have the necessary skills for a specific job. However, much controversy still exists about the use of such instruments, particularly in the multicultural South African context, as not all psychometric tests accommodate individuals from different cultures and different socio-economic and educational backgrounds. The objective of this study was to assess the structural validity of the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi) developed by Bar-On. The EQi measurement consist of 133 items and was completed by a total of 1 104 participants in the South African insurance sector drawn by means of convenient sampling. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed, from which only nine factor loadings resulted out of an anticipated fifteen. Overall, the factor loadings did not provide a good representation of the Bar-On theoretical model. In addition, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test if the data fitted the Bar-On EQI theoretical model. The results suggest a poor fit and therefore the structural validity of the EQI can be questioned for the respondents from an insurance company. Human Resource Management MCom Unrestricted 2013-09-09T12:15:07Z 2013-04-18 2013-09-09T12:15:07Z 2013-04-04 2012 2012-11-12 Dissertation De Franca, MMN 2012, Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company, MCom Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31422> C13/4/10/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31422 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11122012-145008/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria C13/4/10/ application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company |
| title_full | Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company |
| title_fullStr | Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company |
| title_short | Structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory (EQi) within an insurance company |
| title_sort | structural validity of the emotional quotient inventory eqi within an insurance company |
| topic | UCTD Structural validity Emotional quotient inventory (EQi) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31422 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11122012-145008/ |