Cross- Cultural Validation of the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ)

this article discusses the cross-cultural validation of the emotional skills and competence questionnaire (escq), which consists of 45 items divided into three subscales - (i) perceiving and understanding emotion (pu), (ii) expressing and labelling emotion (el), and (iii) managing and regulating emotion (mr) - and is classified as a ？trait emotional intelligence？ or ？perceived emotional intelligence？ measure. originally, it was developed in croatian settings using a theoretical framework from the emotional intelligence model (mayer & salovey, 1997), but it has already been translated into english and presented in 2001 at the 7th european congress of psychology in london. the psychometric qualities and the relations of escq with several relevant constructs in croatian, portuguese, finnish, swedish, slovene, spanish, and japanese contexts are here presented, using target samples of mainly high school and university students, as well as older subjects (workers and supervisors), highlighting construct, convergent, divergent and concurrent validity. however, the cronbach alpha of the mrscale needs improvement, stressing the need to further pursue the validity studies of the escq.