• DOI:10.1037/bul0000078
• Corpus ID: 29455205

Overlap Between the General Factor of Personality and Emotional Intelligence: A Meta-Analysis

@article{vanderLinden2017OverlapBT,
  title={Overlap Between the General Factor of Personality and Emotional Intelligence: A Meta-Analysis},
  author={Dimitri van der Linden and Keri A. Pekaar and Arnold B. Bakker and Julie Aitken Schermer and Philip A. Vernon and Curtis S. Dunkel and Konstantinos V. Petrides},
  journal={Psychological Bulletin},
  year={2017},
  volume={143},
  pages={36–52}
}

• Dimitri van der Linden, Keri A. Pekaar, +4 authors K. Petrides
• Published 2017
• Psychology
• Psychological Bulletin

We examine the relationship between the general factor of personality (GFP) and emotional intelligence (EI) and specifically test the hypothesis that the GFP is a social effectiveness factor overlapping conceptually with EI. Presented is an extensive meta-analysis in which the associations between the GFP, extracted from the Big Five dimensions, with various EI measures is examined. Based on a total sample of k = 142 data sources (N = 36,268) the 2 major findings from the meta-analysis were (a) a large overlap between the GFP and trait EI (r ≈ .85); and (b) a positive, but more moderate, correlation with ability EI (r ≈ .28). These findings show that high-GFP individuals score higher on trait and ability EI, supporting the notion that the GFP is a social effectiveness factor. The findings also suggest that the GFP is very similar, perhaps even synonymous, to trait EI.