Measuring team emotional intelligence: A multimethod comparison.

Abstract

This study compared 3 measures of the team emotional intelligence (EI) construct: an individual-referent subjective measure, an individual-referent performance measure and a team-referent measure. Results showed that when using emotion-related variables (e.g., team relationship conflict and cohesion) as criterion variables, the team-referent EI measure was the strongest predictor and demonstrated incremental validity over both of the individual-referent measures. Furthermore, the individual-referent subjective measure demonstrated marginal incremental validity over the individual-referent performance measure. These results were not found when task-related variables, such as task conflict and performance, were used as criteria. Implications of the results are discussed.