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Validity and Reliability of Scores on the Reduced Emotional Intensity Scale

Vlerick Leuven Gewt Management School, Ghent University, and University of Brussels

Patrick de Pelsmacker

Universiteit Antwerpen Management School and Ghent University

The purpose of this study was to investigate the underlying factor structure of the 30-item Emotional Intensity Scale (EIS) and to construct a reduced EIS (EIS-R). The psychometric characteristics of the scales were examined from three different samples: 204 employees of the University of Antwerp, a subset of 106 of the first sample who cooperated in a retest, and 510 men and women representative of the Belgian population. The original EIS does not seem to possess an adequate factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis on a reduced scale of 17 items indicates that two factors underlie the EIS-R: a positive and a negative emotions factor. Furthermore, scores on the EIS-R were shown to have adequate reliability and validity.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 2, 299-315 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164402062002007


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