Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Intuitively, “emotional intelligence” (EI) may seem like necessary condition for productive leader-member relations or effective leadership, as many writers have suggested. I show that this link does not hold up to empirical scrutiny when using strong methodological tests. I reanalyze secondary data and show that both trait (EQi and WLEIS) and ability (MSCEIT) models of EI are linearly dependent on intelligence and/or personality (with multiple r's ranging from .48 to .76 depending on the measure used). Also, controlling for personality and general intelligence I show that emotional intelligence either does not predict or negatively predicts leader-member relations (LMX). As concerns predictors of leadership, the concept of EI has to be either reformulated or abandoned as I have suggested on repeated occasions.
Author: John Antonakis
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7154962687