Social interactionDate of publication: 08/07/2007 This section is still being developed but will eventually contain complete summaries of studies that have studied social interaction based on the Bar-On conceptual and psychometric model of emotional-social intelligence. In the meantime, I have summarized the key studies that I am aware of. Should you wish to share findings from a study that you have conducted or have detailed information on studies that others have conducted focusing on this topic, please use the template provided above for summarizing this study and email it to us (info@reuvenbaron.org). You are invited to provide results that confirm or refute these findings and help us understand this area better. In addition to a number of older studies that have indicated a significant relationship between EI and social interaction [Bar-On, 1988, 1997b, 2000], a recent examination of an older dataset sheds new light on the nature of this relationship [Bar-On, 2006]. When the EQ-i was normed in North America [Bar-On, 1997b], 533 participants in the normative sample completed the 16PF in addition to the EQ-i. Factor H on the 16PF assesses the extent to which one seeks out friendly, genial and positive relationships with others [Cattell et al., 1970]. This factor was selected as the dependent variable, and the 15 EQ-i sub-scales were selected as the independent variables; and the results of applying a multiple regression analysis of the data suggested that emotional-social intelligence, as conceptualized by the Bar-On model, relates very significantly with social interaction (.69). This strongly indicates that emotional-social intelligence has a substantial impact on and can predict the nature of interpersonal interaction. These findings compare quite favorable with those generated by other EI measures. For example, Brackett and his colleagues have found correlations in the .28 to .45 range between the MSCEIT and the “quality of interpersonal relationships” [Brackett et al., 2003].
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