Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Best Practices, Case Studies, and Strategies

9.3. STEP 3. ANALYZE THE DATA

The first step in analyzing your EI data is to ensure that the data are valid or, in other words, that they provide an accurate reflection of an individual's self-reported emotional and social functioning. If an average inventory takes fifteen minutes to complete, you might consider removing protocols that were completed in eight minutes or less, or ones in which respondents used a recognizable response pattern (such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4). These results are labeled "invalid" by the EQ-i® due to the likelihood that they do not represent a person's actual responses. Another advantage of the EQ-i® is its ability to flag respondents who present an unusually positive view of themselves; those with elevated scores ...