Relationship Between Measures of Emotional Intelligence and Alexithymia Among Moroccan Students

Abstract

The main purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and alexithymia, using the Bar-on Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-I; BarOn, 1997) and the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS; Wong & Law, 2002) to measure EI and The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20; Bagby et al., 1994) to measure alexithymia. A second purpose was to examine the relationship between the two measures of EI. The study sample consisted of fifty-two participants (28 girls and 24 boys), with a mean age of 151.71 months, belonging to the Fez-Meknes region, Morocco. It was found that there was a negative correlation between score on the Bar-on EQ-i and score on the TAS-20 as well as a positive correlation between the total scores on the two measures of EI. Results were discussed in the context of different theoretical bases for the two measures of EI