The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test
is a 141-item ability scale de-signed to measure the four branches of Mayer and Salovey's theory of EI
The MSCEIT yields a total emotional intelligence score ; the four branch scores comprise this total score
providing an overall index of the respondent's emotional intelligence
Since pre-vious research has found high correlations between the overall and branch scores
in the present study we used overall EI score as a global construct
EI was measured using a well-validated Spanish version of MSCETI
In the present sample
the internal reli-ability for total scale was 89