The Development And Survey Of The Emotional Intelligence Scale Of College Students

The half open-ended questionnaire covering the elements of emotional intelligence of college student put forth in this thesis is based on the open-ended questionnaire and interviews, and the analysis of the literature pertinent to emotional intelligence. On the basis of the study by means of the half open-ended questionnaire, this thesis endeavors to set up the theoretical frame of emotional intelligence of college student, and makes the preliminary questionnaire, which is suitable for college students. According to the consequence of the study by the preliminary questionnaire, we improve the theory and frame of emotional intelligence of college students, work out the formal scale of emotional intelligence of college students, which includes self-report sub-scale and task sub-scale, and probe into the characteristics of emotional intelligence of college students with the formal scale.The results of the study show that:(1) The self-made scale of emotional intelligence of college students is of high reliability and fair validity. Through factor analysis, we find that emotional intelligence of college students is constructed by five major dimensions: emotional perceivability, emotional evaluation, emotional adaptability, emotional management, emotional expressiveness.(2) The order of mean of each dimension by the self-report sub-scale is: emotional perceivability, emotional evaluation, emotional adaptability, emotional management, emotional expressiveness. The order of mean of each dimension by the task sub-scale is: emotional evaluation, emotional management, emotional perceivability, emotional adaptability, emotional expressiveness.(3) The study applying the self-report sub-scale shows that the gender differences of emotional evaluation and some sub-factors are statistically remarkable. With respect to the main factor and sub-factors such as empathy, optimism, and happiness, female college students overstep male college students. Using task sub-scale, we find that the empathy mean of the female college students as well as independence mean of female college students is significantly higher than that of male college students.(4) The self-control mean of science college students is significantly higher than that of arts college students when examined by the self-report sub-scale. The persistence mean of science college students is statistically higher than that of arts college students. The general mean of science college students is higher than that of arts college students when examined by both self-report sub-scale and task sub-scale.(5) Using self-report sub-scale, we find that the order of general mean of college students in each grade is: freshmen's, sophomores', seniors' and juniors'. However the differences among grades are not statistically significant. The emotional perceivability mean of freshmen is statistically higher than that of sophomores and seniors. There is no significant difference among grades on other main factors. The means of sub-factors of happiness and flexibility of freshmen is statistically higher than that of sophomores. The empathy mean, optimism mean and flexibility mean of freshman are statistically higher than those of seniors.The study using task sub-scale shows that the order of general mean of each grade is: freshmen's, juniors', sophomores' and seniors'. The emotional adaptability mean of freshmen is statistically higher than that of sophomores. The means of the sub-factors of reality, problem-solving and social responsibility of freshmen are statistically higher than those of sophomores and seniors. The influence mean of sophomores is statistically higher than that of juniors, and the influence mean of juniors is statistically higher than that of seniors. The independence mean of sophomores is statistically higher than that of seniors. The stress endurance mean of seniors is statistically higher than that of sophomores.(6) The interactions between departments and grades, and departments and genders on emotional intelligence are statistically signifi...