The present study examined the association between two personality dimensions, Neuroticism and Extraversion, with Emotional Intelligence (EI) assessed by a self-report measure. Participants were 131 men and women, aged between 18 and 49 years. The instruments used were the Factorial Neuroticism Scale (FNS), the Factorial Extraversion Scale (FES) and the Emotional Intelligence Measure (EIM). Correlational and Multiple Regression Analysis demonstrated that the personality scales could explain a large amount of the variance of the EIM. The personality dimensions, Extraversion and Neuroticism, and Emotional Intelligence, measured by self-report scales did not behave as independent constructs. These present results corroborated a series of previous studies, and allowed us to suggest that it is not adequate, nor reasonable to measure EI through self-reports.
Emotion; Emotional intelligence; Cognition; Personality; Assessment
