The Videotest of Emotion Recognition by Lyusin and Ovsyannikova: A new scoring method

The article discusses how emotional intelligence tests are scored if the correct answers are based on expert assessments. As an example, the convergent validity of the Videotest of Emotion Recognition by Lyusin and Ovsyannikova is assessed using the author's and new key. In the author's version of the key, calculation of the accuracy of emotion recognition and the sensitivity to emotion intensity is based on the estimates of the distance between the respondent’s and experts’ scores. An alternative key was proposed for the reason that this method of calculation does not take into account the respondent’s errors when she notes that there was no emotion (0 points), but, according to experts, an emotion was present (from 1 to 5 points), and vice versa. In the standardization sample (N = 654), accuracy and sensitivity scores obtained using these two keys correlated at the 0.7 level. A slight advantage was shown for the new key: the accuracy of emotion recognition had stronger relationships with general emotional intelligence, identification with general emotional intelligence, identification of emotion (N = 120– 165, MSCEIT), as well as accuracy of basic emotion recognition in facial expressions (N = 112, JACFEE). With a higher accuracy of emotion recognition, a person is maximally sensitive to the intensity of another person’s emotions or slightly underestimates their intensity, which was more pronounced when using the author’s key.