Part V: Creating The EQ-i 2.0 And EQ 360 2.0

Danish Norms

Overview

The release of the Danish EQ-i 2.0 Professional Norms provides users with the ability to score their clients against data collected from Denmark. This chapter provides normative and psychometric information particular to the Danish population. The EQ-i 2.0 assessment remains unchanged, but an additional normative sample is now available (the original North American normative samples are described in detail in Standardization, Reliability, and Validity; information about normative data from other countries is available in Additional Norms).

This chapter describes the development of the EQ-i 2.0 Danish normative sample. For information on the EQ-i 2.0, including administration, interpretation, and development of the North American Norms, please refer to Parts I-V of the EQ-i 2.0 User’s Handbook.

The EQ-i 2.0 data were collected from 600 Danish respondents, evenly proportioned by gender within three age intervals from across the country. Several small- to medium-sized effects were found for gender. Women scored higher than men on the Emotional Self-Awareness, Emotional Expression, Interpersonal Relationships, Empathy, and Social Responsibility subscales, as well as the Interpersonal composite; men scored higher than women on Independence, Problem Solving, Impulse Control, and Stress Tolerance subscales, as well as the Decision Making composite. Small- to medium-sized effects were also seen across age groups for Total EI, the Self-Expression, Decision Making, and Stress Management composites, and the Emotional Self-Awareness, Independence, Social Responsibility, Problem Solving, Reality Testing, Impulse Control, Flexibility, Stress Tolerance, and Optimism subscales; this led to the creation of both overall norms, as well as age- and gender-specific norms. Finally, EQ-i 2.0 scores were found to be reliable in the Danish sample, and the factor structure that was developed in North America was closely approximated with the Danish sample data. Further details regarding these results are provided in the EQ-i 2.0 Danish Norms – Standardization section below.