Language
NL | EN | DE
Norm group
Advice
Time
5-10 minutes
Credits
150
Emotional intelligence concerns the knowledge and skills required to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others effectively to regulate social and emotional behaviour.
The Rotterdam Emotional Intelligence Scale can be applied in an advisory context in which it is desirable to gain an insight into a candidate’s emotional intelligence and their strong points and pitfalls. The REIS is a short questionnaire of just 5-10 minutes and can therefore be effectively combined with other measuring instruments.
The questionnaire was developed by Keri Pekaar (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Please refer to the fact sheet in our database, or the article entitled “Self- and other-focused emotional intelligence: Development and validation of the Rotterdam Emotional Intelligence Scale (REIS)” by Pekaar et al. (2018) for more details and background information.
Many instruments that measure emotional intelligence do not differentiate between the recognition and regulation of one’s own emotions and the recognition and regulation of the emotions of others, whereas REIS does. As it happens, there are indications that the recognition and management of one’s own emotions differs from the recognition and management of those of others. It is possible to be better in one than in the other. This variation can subsequently have an impact on different aspects of life. For example, research has shown that recognition of one’s own emotions is particularly important for mental and physical wellbeing, while recognition of the emotions of others ensures smooth social interaction. If only the total score is considered, no differentiation can be made between these aspects and their consequences.
The questionnaire reports on four different scales of emotional intelligence: