Didn’t have a particular source in mind, was going off memory.
Looks like there’s some debate over whether it has predictive power, but consensus is that EQ is a collection of mostly unrelated traits, and is heavily entangled with the big five, particularly neuroticism and openness, in an overlapping way. (My memory overstated the case somewhat.) This looks like a relatively representative study, and here are the abstract and docx of a study which concluded that EQ had no meaningful predictive power.
As far as the first study goes, I don’t see why we should control for income and marital status. If EQ increases income in a way that increases life satisfaction then EQ is a highly useful construct.
That said there are political problems with treating openness as a variable to be maximized. Openness correlates with voting left in US elections. Teaching people to increase their abilities of emotional management might be politically easier to communicate.
A lot of personality tests are also easy to game if a person wants to score highly. The notion of intelligence supposes that getting high values in the test needs actual skill.
Could you link to such an analysis? It would surprise me.
Didn’t have a particular source in mind, was going off memory.
Looks like there’s some debate over whether it has predictive power, but consensus is that EQ is a collection of mostly unrelated traits, and is heavily entangled with the big five, particularly neuroticism and openness, in an overlapping way. (My memory overstated the case somewhat.) This looks like a relatively representative study, and here are the abstract and docx of a study which concluded that EQ had no meaningful predictive power.
As far as the first study goes, I don’t see why we should control for income and marital status. If EQ increases income in a way that increases life satisfaction then EQ is a highly useful construct.
That said there are political problems with treating openness as a variable to be maximized. Openness correlates with voting left in US elections. Teaching people to increase their abilities of emotional management might be politically easier to communicate.
A lot of personality tests are also easy to game if a person wants to score highly. The notion of intelligence supposes that getting high values in the test needs actual skill.