Why emotional intelligence is an invalid concept

By Edwin A. Locke. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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An Affective Events Model of Charismatic Leadership Behavior: A Review, Theoretical Integration, and Research Agenda (2009, background): “Scholars have, for instance, criticized mixed EI models as lacking construct validity because of their virtually allencompassing nature (e.g., Locke, 2005; Mayer, Salovey, et al., 2008).”
Leader emergence: the role of emotional intelligence and motivation to lead (2011, background): “EI remains controversial with respect to both construct and criterion-related validity (Cherniss, 2010; Dulewicz and Higgs, 2000; Landy, 2005; Locke, 2005).”
Cognitive-Experiential Theory: An Integrative Theory of Personality (2014, background): “However, all self-report tests, including the BAR-ON, are open to the criticism that they are not tests of EI as they include a variety of other abilities and attributes that are not emotional (e.g., Daus & Ashkanasy, 2003; Locke, 2005).”
Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Review (2006, background): “Locke (2005) claimed that EI was defined too broadly to ever be adequately tested.”
The relation between emotional intelligence and job performance: A meta‐analysis (2011, background): “Then, we examine the degree to which EI measures should be positively or negatively related to GMA and various personality traits.”
Evidence-Based I–O Psychology: Not There Yet (2011, background): “Although introduced to social science through work by Mayer and Salovey (1997), the type of claims made in Daniel Goleman’s (1998) popular book and other popular accounts of the topic are clearly questionable (e.g., Cherniss, 2010; Locke, 2005).”
The Value of Emotional Intelligence for High Performance Coaching (2011, background): “EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: MAYER AND SALOVEY’S (1997) ABILITY MODEL Lengthy discussions have been raised as to what EI is, and what it is not [6-9].”
Emotional intelligence: new ability or eclectic traits? (2008, methodology): “(Locke, 2005, p. 428) We believe that there is a valid EI concept.”
Are (male) leaders feminine enough? Gendered traits of identity as mediators of sex differences in leadership styles (2012, background): “Although the relations between EI and performance remain to be clarified (Antonakis et al., 2009; Locke, 2005), some studies have suggested that EI is related to effective leadership (Walter et al.”
Emotional intelligence: an integrative meta-analysis and cascading model. (2010, background): “In regard to the latest incarnation of the social intelligence concept—“emotional intelligence”—critics remain dubious on the definition and measurement of EI and whether EI has incremental validity in organizational contexts beyond personality traits and cognitive ability (Landy, 2005; Locke, 2005;”
Emotional Intelligence: Sine Qua Non of Leadership or Folderol? (2011, unknown): “On one hand, published evidence contradicts extreme claims that EI has no value for leadership theory and practice (e.g., Antonakis, 2003; Locke, 2005).”
Current Emotion Research in Organizational Behavior (2011, background): “Although subject to controversy (Ashkanasy & Daus, 2005; Daus & Ashkanasy, 2005; Jordan, Ashkanasy, & Ascough, 2007; Jordan, Ashkanasy, & Daus, 2008; Locke, 2005), the idea that individuals differ in the way they process emotional information is really very straightforward.”
A multi-level view of leadership and emotions: Leading with emotional labor (2011, background): “Although there are some strong critics of the role of emotional intelligence in transformational leadership (e.g., Antonakis, 2004; Locke, 2005), research has been generally supportive of the idea that emotional intelligence is linked to transformational leadership (e.”