This article examines the relationship between emotional intelligence, emotional competence, and emotional education, with special reference to moral emotions applied to secondary education. Emotional education is a continuous and permanent educational process that occurs throughout life with the objective of developing emotional competences. Emotional intelligence in education is the foundation of these competences. There is currently abundant evidence for the benefits for students of emotional education. Its most notable effects include improved ethical and moral behaviour, the development of prosocial behaviours, and improved emotional competences, resulting in improved coexistence and well-being. Emotional education can address a multitude of topics, including emotional awareness and regulation, emotional autonomy, self-esteem, self-motivation, social skills, assertiveness, empathy, life skills, well-being, etc. This work focuses on moral emotions and values as an important aspect of education in adolescence. Adolescence is a developmental stage with significant changes and instability in moods that justifies the need to develop emotional intelligence in the educational field, specifically the education of moral emotions. Therefore, this work offers practical considerations for inclusion in the secondary education stage where the figure of the teacher has a key role as a model and educational reference.

Pérez-González and Sánchez-Ruiz (2014) published a study in which they found that trait emotional intelligence can be considered a broad personality trait integrated into the higher levels of a multi-level personality hierarchy. They also came to the conclusion that this construct can be considered a proxy for the general factor of personality. The purpose of this study is to try to replicate their study. We follow the same methodology these authors used but with a new sample, and a different definition of trait emotional intelligence and therefore a different measurement tool. Our results show convergent validity between trait emotional intelligence and personality, but not discriminant validity, suggesting than trait emotional intelligence is not integrated in the higher level of the personality hierarchies, but it is another way to measure the same big five personality traits that traditionally compose the construct of personality. We also found that trait emotional intelligence highly correlated with the general personality factor, but additionally we found an extremely high negative correlation between those two constructs and neuroticism. This finding suggest that they may represent above all just the absence of neuroticism in a person.

En este artículo se aportan argumentos que justifican la importancia de la evaluación en la educación emocional y se presenta una gran variedad de instrumentos de medición de las emociones, inteligencia emocional y competencias emocionales. La educación emocional precisa de una evaluación rigurosa para aportar evidencias de las mejoras atribuibles a la formación recibida. Los instrumentos que se presentan se basan en los distintos modelos de la inteligencia emocional y las competencias emocionales. Se justifican las razones para utilizar instrumentos de autoinforme en lugar de los instrumentos neurofisiológicos. Se ofrecen algunas recomendaciones para la elaboración de instrumentos de medición de las emociones, teniendo en cuenta la sensibilidad como un parámetro crucial, junto con la validez y la fiabilidad. Las aportaciones de este trabajo pueden ser de interés para los profesionales de cualquier nivel y ámbito de la educación, así como para los profesionales de la investigación de las emociones.

Significant efforts have been allocated over the last thirty years towards the conceptualization and assessment of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) construct. However, there is limited work on examining the EI construct in a group level. Collective Emotional Intelligence (CEI) is introduced as the ability of a group to promote awareness and regulation of members' and group's emotions, improving their capacity to collaborate effectively and avoid or easily resolve conflicts. High CEI levels in a group positively affect the group's performance. In this article, we provide a definition of collective EI constructs, based on the extension of the open-access EmoSocio EI model. EmoSocio is selected as a basis since it regards an EI model, enriched with sociometric indexes at an individual and group level. A set of new constructs are included in the model for representing abilities for emotions' management in a group level along with indicators for revealing the group dynamics. EmoSociograms is also presented as an open-source psychometric tool to dynamically manage and assess the social and emotional competences of individuals and groups. Evaluation results regarding the validity and the reliability of the extended EmoSocio model are made available, based on the assessment of CEI constructs in in-person and online groups, formed under an educational and working context, as well as an online discussion forum.

En este artículo se presenta el estudio de validación de un instrumento para la medición de la inteligencia emocional rasgo. Se trata del CDE-A35, cuestionario de desarrollo emocional de adultos elaborado a partir del modelo pentagonal de la competencia emocional. Se han realizado diversos estudios para demostrar la fiabilidad y la validez del instrumento. Entre ellos se ha realizado el cálculo del coeficiente de consistencia interna, estudios factoriales (AFC y AFE), estudios correlacionales con otras medidas de inteligencia emocional, habilidades sociales y personalidad, y se ha efectuado un estudio de regresión. El estudio sugirió la supresión y reubicación de algunos elementos quedando el instrumento definitivo constituido por 35 ítems organizados en cinco factores: conciencia emocional, regulación, competencias sociales, autonomía emocional y competencias de vida y bienestar, coincidentes con las dimensiones de la competencia emocional en el modelo teórico. Las destacables correlaciones con otras pruebas de inteligencia emocional (TEIque y CTI), así como con las dimensiones de la prueba de personalidad (NEO-FFI) y con el Inventario de habilidades sociales (EHS), han confirmado su validez convergente. Asimismo, mediante los análisis de regresión se ha confirmado la validez incremental del CDE-A35 sobre otras pruebas ya establecidas. El CDE-A35 es un cuestionario bien fundamentado teóricamente y con buenas características psicométricas, por lo que se considera óptimo para evaluar la inteligencia emocional rasgo en adultos. This article presents the validation of an instrument for the measurement of trait emotional intelligence. More specifically, the instrument validated is the CDE-A35, an adult emotional development questionnaire elaborated from the pentagonal model of emotional competence. Various studies have been carried out to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the instrument. These include the calculation of the questionnaire’s internal consistency coefficient, factor studies (AFC and AFE), correlation studies with other measures of emotional intelligence, social skills and personality, and a regression study. The present validation suggested the suppression and relocation of some elements, leading to a definitive instrument consisting of 35 items organized within five factors: emotional awareness, regulation, social skills, emotional autonomy and life and well-being skills. These five factors coincide with the dimensions of emotional competence in the theoretical model. The remarkable correlations with other emotional intelligence tests (TEIque and CTI), as well as with the dimensions of the personality test NEO-FFI and with the Inventory of Social Skills (EHS), confirmed its convergent validity. Furthermore, the regression analysis performed confirmed the incremental validity of the CDE-A35 over other tests already established. The CDE-A35 is a sound theoretically-based questionnaire with rigorous psychometric characteristics, and is therefore considered optimal for evaluating trait emotional intelligence in adults.