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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Social-emotional expertise (SEE) involves cognitive abilities for social interaction, emphasizing behavioral timing and synchrony.
  • Validating a SEE construct is essential for understanding social-emotional ability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a self-report measure for Social-Emotional Expertise (SEE).
  • To examine the psychometric properties and construct validity of the SEE scale.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Item generation and reliability testing of a 76-item SEE measure, resulting in a 25-item scale.
  • Experiments 2 & 3: Assessing convergent and discriminant validity by correlating the SEE scale with emotional intelligence, social anxiety, social desirability, and self-monitoring.
  • Factor analysis to identify underlying dimensions of SEE.

Main Results:

  • The 25-item SEE scale demonstrated high reliability (test-retest: r = .82; Cronbach's α = .90).
  • The SEE scale showed expected correlations with convergent (emotional intelligence, social anxiety) and discriminant (social desirability, self-monitoring) constructs.
  • Two factors, Adaptability and Expressivity, were identified, correlating distinctively with related constructs.

Conclusions:

  • The developed SEE scale is a reliable and valid measure of social-emotional expertise.
  • The findings support the two-factor structure (Adaptability and Expressivity) of SEE.
  • This measure can aid in the assessment and understanding of social-emotional abilities.