Part V: creating the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 2.0

Swedish Norms

Overview

The release of the Swedish EQ-i 2.0 Professional Norms and the Swedish EQ 360 2.0 Professional Norms provides users with the ability to score their clients against data collected from Sweden. This chapter provides normative and psychometric information particular to the Swedish population. The EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 2.0 assessments remain unchanged, but additional normative samples are 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 and EQ 360 2.0 Swedish normative samples. For information on the EQ-i 2.0, including administration, interpretation, and development of the North American Norms, please refer to the EQ-i 2.0 User’s Handbook.

The first section of this chapter is devoted to the development, standardization, reliability, and validity of the EQ-i 2.0 Swedish norms, and the second section describes the same properties for the EQ 360 2.0 Swedish norms.

The EQ-i 2.0 data were collected from 900 Swedish respondents, evenly proportioned by gender within four age intervals from across the country. Several small- to medium-sized effects were found for gender. Women scored higher than men on the Emotional Expression, Empathy, and Emotional Self-Awareness subscales, as well as the Interpersonal and Self-Expression composites; however, men scored higher than women on the Stress Tolerance, Independence, and Impulse Control subscales. Small- to medium-sized effects were also seen across age groups for the Total EI score and most other scales, which 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 Swedish sample, and the factor structure that was developed in North America was closely approximated with the Swedish sample data.

The EQ 360 2.0 Swedish normative data were collected from 800 Swedish raters. Negligible effects were found for age of the ratee and rater type (i.e., manager, direct report, work peer, and friend/family member). While some significant differences were found for gender of the ratee, these effects were not considered large enough to create separate norms. For ease of interpretation and to remain consistent with the norming procedure used in other countries (i.e., Canada, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa), one overall norm group was created that collapses across all three of these variables. Finally, EQ 360 2.0 scores were found to be highly reliable in the Swedish sample, and the factor structure that was developed in North America was closely replicated with the EQ 360 2.0 Swedish normative data.

Further details regarding these results are provided in the EQ-i 2.0 Swedish Norms - Standardization and EQ 360 2.0 Swedish Norms - Standardization sections found below.