© ADR Journals 2014. All Rights Reserved. Construction of Emotional Intelligence Scale for Doctors Dr. Shipra Bhardwaj Sharma * , Dr. Trilok Kumar Jain ** Abstract Today Emotional Intelligence is viewed to be an important measure of success. There are many EI scales to measure Emotional Intelligence of students, managers, and common people but was a research gap of EI Scale for Doctors. As Doctors face an environment of illness, mishap, pain, death, survival and life at the Hospital, they should be emotionally strong/emotionally intelligent to balance and survive through their professional as well as personal stress. So an EI scale for Doctors is constructed. This is a likert type scale. The scale’s Reliability and validity are tested through various statistical measures and the final scale is designed. Keywords: Ability Models, Trait Models, Reliability, Validity, Stress Management, Mood Management, Cronbach's alpha, Split-half reliability, Construct validity, Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity. The Assessment of Emotional Intelligence To assess the Emotional Intelligence level there are many measures/ tests given by different Researchers. For the purpose of ease these measures can be divided into two parts, based on the two Models of EI i.e. the Ability Models and the Trait EI or Mixed Models. Trait EI or Mixed Models is measured exclusively by self-report measures comprising items that assess one’s typical levels of EI. In contrast, Ability based models of EI is measured by questionnaires that assess one’s maximal levels of EI. The instruments based on ability models (Salovey & Mayer, 1990; Mayer & Salovey, 1997) have been developed to assess relevant aspects of individuals’ perception of their emotional competencies (e.g., the Trait Meta-Mood Scale [TMMS]; Salovey et al., 1995). On the other hand, tests reflecting trait models focus predominately on “noncognitive” factors such as social skills, self-esteem, and personality dimensions (Emotional Quotient Inventory [EQ-I]; Bar-On, 1997; Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQ) Trait-Meta Mood Scale The Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS; Salovey et al., 1995) is a 30-item self-report measure 1 that was designed to assess general beliefs about attention to mood, the clarity of one’s own experiences of mood, and one’s efforts to repair mood states. It is composed of three subscales: Attention to Feelings, Clarity in Discrimination of Feelings, and Mood Repair. Attention to Feelings indexes the amount of attention individuals feel they allot to experienced emotions and the importance of attending to mood. It consists of items like “I pay a lot of attention to how I feel” and “I never give in to my emotions” (reversed scoring). Clarity in Discrimination of Feelings measures how clearly and distinctly individuals feel and experience their emotions, for example, “I am rarely confused about how I feel.” The final subscale, Mood Repair, reflects an individual’s efforts to repair negative mood, in a way that maintains a generally positive outlook. A characteristic item of this subscale is “When I become upset I remind myself of all the pleasures in life.” Internal consistencies for the three subscales are all exceeding .80: α=.86, .88, and .82 for Attention to Feelings, Clarity of Discrimination of Feelings, and Mood Repair, respectively (Salovey et al., 1995). Confirmatory factor analysis has demonstrated the robustness of the theoretical three-factor structure (Goldman, Kraemer, & Salovey, 1996). Findings revealing that the factors are sufficiently differentiated from related constructs such as neuroticism and repression provide evidence for the conceptual distinctiveness of the three factors (Salovey et al., 1995). Recently, Pérez, Petrides, * Faculty member, Faculty of Management, Sobhasaria Engineering College, Sikar ** Professor, Manipal University , Jaipur Correspondence to: Dr. Trilok Kumar Jain, Professor, Manipal University Jaipur. E- mail: jain.tk@gmail.com