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The MSCEIT costs about $39 (USD) per use.  I must buy my MSCEIT uses from the publisher, just like everyone else. (Although I do get a distributor discount.)  However, MHS, the test publisher, has agreed to allow qualified researchers to get MSCEIT uses for only $5 - plus you get the tests scored and the data inserted into an Excel spreadsheet. I think this is a great deal.

But, it's also way beyond the budgets of many people. You have lower-cost and free alternatives to consider. However, I am not endorsing these as alternatives to ability measures of EI! These are simple, self-report scales that measure something very different but that might meet your needs for a project, paper, thesis etc.

Other EI Tests and Alternatives
Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Scale: Developed by Marc Brackett, it is a self-report test based on the ability model. Of course, such tests correlate less than .20 with ability measures of EI, so this is a good alternative for papers rather than dissertations.

Schutte Self-Report Scale: a widely-used scale of EI. Same limitations as above.

Trait Meta-Mood Scale: an early measure of mood and mood regulation by Salovey and Mayer.

Emotional Empathy Scale: a 30-item scale of emotional empathy by Mayer and Caruso.

Contacts

Schutte et al. (1998, Personality and Individual Differences). Find the article for the scale and data. Dr Schutte's last contact was nschutte@une.ed.au)

Petrides and Furnham (see http://www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/phd/kpetrides/trait_ei_pubs.htm)

Other sources: http://www.unh.edu/emotional_intelligence/eiMSCEITalternatives.htm.

Note: MSCEIT is a trademark of Multi-Health Systems (MHS).