Publications & Consulting Experience

Mayer, J.D. Caruso, D.R., Salovey, P., Lin, I.Y., Hansma, B.J., Solomon, J., Sitarenios, G., & Romero Escobar E.M. (2025). Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT 2: Theory, rationale, and initial findings. Frontiers in Psychology, 16. DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1539785

Mayer, J.D., Caruso, D.R., Sitarenios, G., & Romero Escobar E.M. (2024). How many emotional intelligence abilities are there? An examination of four measures of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112468

Bartone, P.T., McDonald K., Hansma, B.J., Stermac-Stein, J., Romero Escobar E.M., Stein, S.J. & Ryznar, R. (2023). Development and validation of an improved hardiness measure: The hardiness resilience gauge. European Journal of Psychological Assessment,39(3), 222-239. DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a00070

Pagé, M.G., Katz, J., Romero Escobar, E.M., Ware, M.A., & Choiniere, M. (2017). Predicting treatment outcomes of pain patients attending tertiary multidisciplinary pain treatment centers: A pain trajectory approach. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1(1), 61-74, DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2017.1325715

Pagé, M.G., Katz, J., Romero Escobar, E.M., Cohen, N., Curtis, K., Fuss, S., & Clarke, H.A. (2015). Distinguishing problematic from nonproblematic postsurgical pain: A pain trajectory analysis after total knee arthroplasty. Pain, 156(3):460-468.

Hitzig, S. L., Romero Escobar, E. M., Noreau, L., and Craven, B. C. (2012). Validation of the reintegration to normal living index for Community-Dwelling persons with chronic spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93(1):108-114.

Pascual-Leone,J., Romero Escobar E.M., & Johnson, J. (2012) Logic: Development of logical operations. Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour, 2nd Edition (pp. 538–549). Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier.

Pagé, M. G., Fuss, S., Martin, A. L., Romero Escobar, E. M., & Katz, J. (2010). Development and preliminary validation of the child pain anxiety symptoms scale in a community sample. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 35 (10): 1071-1082 doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsq034.

(Chronologically from most recent)

Romero Escobar, E.M. , Mayer, J.D, Caruso, D.R., Lin, I. & Sitarenios, G. (2020, July). Rank-order response item scoring in an ability-based battery of emotional intelligence. Symposium presentation given at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Virtual.

Romero Escobar, E.M. , Johnson, J., Pascual-Leone, J. (2018, July). IRT parameters and developmental cognitive capacity: A vignette in multi‐source data and item analysis in R. Symposium presentation given at the 11th Conference of The International Test Commission, Montreal, Canada.

Naglieri, J., Goldstein, S., Romero Escobar, E.M. & Mears, S.A. (2012, August). Standardization and Validation of the Comprehensive Executive Function Inventory. Poster presented at the 2012 APA Annual Convention. Orlando, FL.

Romero Escobar E.M., Craven B.C., Noreau L. & Hitzig S.L. (2010, October). Validity of the reintegration to normal living index for describing community participation among persons with spinal cord injury.  Poster presented at the 4th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Hilborn, J.V., Angus, L. Romero Escobar, M., Boritz, T., & Pos, A. (2010, June). Contributions of autobiographical memory specificity and client experiencing to treatment outcomes in York I & II depression studies. Poster presented at the 41st International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Asilomar, CA.

Romero Escobar, E.M. , Johnson, J. & Pascual-Leone, J. (2010, May). Latent variable modeling of the relationship between contextual variables and cognitive developmental tasks in a culturally diverse child sample. Poster presented at the Development 2010: A Canadian Conference On Developmental Psychology, Ottawa, Canada.

Pagé, M. G., Fuss, S., Martin, A., Ritvo, S., Malakhi, S., Romero Escobar, E. M., & Katz, J. (2010, March). Preliminary Validation of the Child Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (CPASS) in a community sample. Poster presented at the 8th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Acapulco, Mexico.

Flora, D.B., & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2009, August). Minor model error and RMSEA for polychoric approach to CFA. Poster presented at the 2009 APA Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada.

Mann, D.Y.T., Papadogiannis, P., Romero Escobar, E.M., & Logan, D. (2009, August). A meta-analytic approach examining an ability based measure of EI and leadership. Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.

Papadogiannis, P., Logan, D., Mann, D.Y.T., & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2009, August). The impact of emotional intelligence on pilots’ and athletes’ level of attention. Poster  presented at the 2009 APA Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada.

Flora, D.B. & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2009, July). Effect of minor model error on confirmatory factor analysis of ordinal variables with polychoric correlations. Presented at the 74th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Cambridge, England.

Johnson, J. Romero Escobar, E.M., & Pascual-Leone, J. (2008, November). Exploring culture-fair assessment of cognitive abilities of immigrant children and children of immigrant parents. Poster presented at On New Shores Conference, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Romero Escobar, E.M. (2008, May). The importance of being discrete. Presented at the 3rd Annual Graduate Psychology Conference – York University, Toronto, Canada.

Calvo, A. & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2007, May). Cognitive style, attention, and Working Memory. Presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Psychology Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Pascual-Leone, J. Johnson, J., & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2007, May-June). Fundamental measurement using organismic theories: Developmental quantitative models of mental attention. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Romero Escobar, E.M., Mehranvar, S., & Pepler, D. (2006, September). Promoviendo relaciones interpersonales y eliminando violencia entre estudiantes de escuela secundaria. Presented at the First Congress of the Spanish Speaking Education Network, Toronto, Canada.

Johnson, J., Pascual-Leone, J., & Romero Escobar, E.M. (2006, June). Theory-based quantitative models of capacity constraints in a mental attention memory task. Poster presented at the 3rd European Working Memory Symposium, Genoa, Italy.

Pascual-Leone, J., Romero Escobar, E.M., Johnson, J., & Morra, S. (2006, June). Mathematical modeling of free recall in the Mental Attention Memory task. Poster presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Montreal, Canada