I am interested in a validated scale to measure intelligence.
The types of intelligence I am referring to would be
A. Emotional intelligence (both trait and ability) as I aim to use it in a study on borderline personality disorder patients with different levels of education.
B. Classical intelligence. As such, I was wondering if there is a test more suitable for this than the IQ test?
I am looking for something that is agreed upon on by (most) of the scientific community and, from what I have seen, the IQ scale does not represent what I am looking for. Also, this study will be done in patients who do not speak English as a native language. They speak Romanian (mostly) as their primary language and English as their 2nd language. As such I would be very interested in questionnaires that have been translated in Romanian already.
Edited at 10:13 PM Friday, 27/09.
Should you wish to use a validated measure of EI it would be helpful to have determined if you are looking at a cognitive related ability , or a personality related factor of EI as such will determine the model and measure of EI adopted.
The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
http://www.eiconsortium.org/measures/msceit.html
There are others, but this is the one I prefer because it's been around longest and has quite a bit of research to back it up (statistically proven measurement scale).
Ian is right about separating the two types of EQ: ability or trait. I use trait EQ test and one of the most valid which I apply in my PhD is TEIQue that has been developed by the University College London by K.V. Petrides. Lot's of information and the test in several languages can be found here:http://www.psychometriclab.com/Default.aspx?Content=Page&id=14
I support both previously made suggestions. My colleagues and I have used both the MSCEIT and the TEIQue, and both proved very good. Personally, I was particularly impressed by the latter -- perhaps the best self-report measure I have ever worked with. There is a lot of material at the website of the Psychometric Lab and Dino Petrides is a very nice person and helpful colleague.
First of all, I would like to thank everybody for the advice offered.
As my aim is to use these questionnaires for BPD patients both trait and ability EI are of interest to me (a mixed model EI questionnaire would also work.
I am also interested in measuring their "classical" intelligence level and I was wondering if there is a test more suitable for this than the IQ test?
One other mention that is worth making:
This study will be done in patients who do not speak English as a native language. They speak Romanian (mostly) as their primary language and English as their 2nd language. As such I would be very interested in questionnaires that have been translated in Romanian already. (the MSCEIT is translated for example).
I have not tried any of these with persons with BPD, but I would not expect problems with TEIQue (although it has 153 items). I have tried to apply Simon Baron-Cohen et al.'s "Mind in the Eyes Test" to some clinical samples and it turned to be too demanding for many subjects. And if you look at it carefully, it is very similar to one of the subtests of MSCEIT.
Good luck with your study - working with persons with BPD is challenging, but very important!
I agree that working with BPD patients might prove demanding. However, so far i have had good reactions.
The problems for me are the lack of patients with BPD and the fact that their first language is Romanian and a study will generally want the questionnaire which is applied to be in the mother tongue of the patients.
@Dr. Kumar: There is already a lot of work in working with BPD patients and creating a new EI scale and validating it will take a lot of extra work. In other words, it would represent another project on its own.
However, if you could suggest some articles/materials regarding validating a new psychological scale I would be interested.
Actually there are many standard measurements of EI which have translated into many languages. However, there is a cost of using those tools. Please reconsider about cultural sensitivity and back translation in case you plan to modify the EI tool into your study.
I agreed with the first post (Heather Corwin); Intelligence, even emotional intelligence topic, needs to assess using a performance test as MSCEIT. If you use TEIQue, EQi Bar-On; TMMS24; Schutte et al., measures and you include a personality measure, this last one will prevail over the EI trait measures in the regressions. A topic needs to be new and indepndence from others topics, traits measures are not independence from personality
Ana can you please give some exact examples of verbal, quantitative and figural reasoning tests.
Raven"s progressive matrices or Alexander pass along test with combination of any oneemotional intelligence test
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