International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

Abstract

The paper reports about the construction and standardization of Emotional Intelligence Inventory. The inventory consists of 85 items out of which 58 were positive statements and 27 were negative statements. The items measure nine factors related to emotional intelligence as given in the E. I model given by, Goleman. All the nine factors have positive correlation. The Inventory was specially designed for higher secondary school children and was administered on a sample of 210 students. Reliability was established by Split-Half reliability technique. Split-Half reliability by odd even method was found to be r = .81 and by upper half and lower half was found to be r = .83. For validity face, content and construct validity was found and the test developed was found to be valid.

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