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Original Article

Seven-Factor Model of Emotional Intelligence as Measured by Genos EI

A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Investigation Based on Self- and Rater-Report Data

Published Online:September 16, 2010https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000041

Abstract

In this investigation, a series of progressively more complex factor models was tested based on self-report and rater-report data derived from the workplace version of the Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Genos EI). Based on a total sample of 4775 individual self-reports and 6848 rater-reports, a theoretically derived higher-order 7-factor model of emotional intelligence (EI) was found to be adequately well-fitting, in comparison to a competing global EI single-factor model and a five-factor model of EI. Internal consistency reliabilities associated with the total scale scores were approximately .95 and the subscale score reliabilities were approximately .80. The results are interpreted as largely supportive of a 7-factor model of EI as measured by Genos EI in both self- and rater-report formats.

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