文档介绍：Personality and Individual Differences 37 (2004) 1059–1068
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Emotional intelligence: not much more than g
and personality q
Melanie J. Schulte a, Malcolm James Ree a,*, Thomas R. Carretta b
a Our Lady of the Lake University, 411 . 24th Street, San Antonio, TX 78207-4689, USA
b Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7511, USA
Received 24 March 2003; received in revised form 20 October 2003; accepted 17 November 2003
Available online 22 January 2004
Abstract
Cognitive ability and personality have long played central roles in the investigation of determinants of
human performance. Recently, the construct of emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged in the popular
literature as an additional explanatory concept for human behavior and performance. The ability con-
ceptualization of EI proposed by Mayer, Salovey, and their colleagues involves the perception, assimila-
tion, comprehension, and management of emotions. Its proponents consider it to be distinct from either
general cognitive ability (g) or personality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the construct
validity of EI by examining its relations to g and the Big Five personality dimensions of Neuroticism,
Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. The observed correlation
between scores on the Wonderlic Personnel Test (a measur