This paper investigates the cross-cultural validity of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale. Two samples of university students were recruited: 504 from a Nepali university and 260 from a UK university. In relation to culture, structural equation modelling analyses provided support for the scale's configural invariance and the configural, metric, and scalar invariance of two if its subscales. Evidence for measurement invariance was also found in relation to gender in both samples. Tentative analyses suggested that the correlation between self and other emotion appraisal was stronger among UK participants and that UK participants scored higher on the Other Emotion Appraisal subscale. No gender differences on emotional intelligence were found in the Nepali sample, while among UK students, males scored higher on Regulation of Emotion and lower on Other Emotion Appraisal than females. In the Nepali sample, science students scored lower on various aspects of emotional intelligence than humanities students.

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在尼泊尔学生样本中调查 Wong 和 Law 情商量表的有效性

本文研究了 Wong 和 Law 情商量表的跨文化效度。招募了两个大学生样本：504 名来自尼泊尔大学，260 名来自英国大学。在文化方面，结构方程建模分析为量表的配置不变性和两个子量表的配置、度量和标量不变性提供了支持。在两个样本中也发现了与性别相关的测量不变性的证据。初步分析表明，英国参与者的自我和其他情绪评估之间的相关性更强，并且英国参与者在其他情绪评估分量表上的得分更高。在尼泊尔样本中没有发现情绪智力的性别差异，而在英国学生中，男性在情绪调节方面的得分高于女性，而在其他情绪评估方面的得分低于女性。在尼泊尔样本中，理科生在情商各方面的得分低于人文科学生。