Psychometric properties of the emotional illiteracy scale among university students

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Assistant Professor at the Department of psychology, in Faculty of Graduate Studies of Education, Cairo University.

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The study aimed to build a scale for the emotional illiteracy variable among university students to provide a psychometric tool to identify emotional illiteracy among university students, and to determine the dimensions of the scale by examining the factorial structure of the variable. For the scale using factor analysis in the main components method, with orthogonal rotation of the axes, and the scale was applied to a sample of university students consisting of (271), and the factors whose latent root exceeds the correct one were kept, and accordingly six factors were extracted.  In order to obtain an interpretable factor composition, the factors were rotated using the Varimax method, and the item was considered saturated on the factor if its saturation was more than 3.0, which resulted in a scale with a six factor structure (self-understanding, expression of feelings, emotion management, management efficiency Difference, empathy, the ability to emotional repair after injury), the internal consistency of the scale was calculated, and the stability of the scale was calculated using alpha and re-application methods, and it was found that the scale had acceptable degrees of validity and reliability.
 

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