MetaEmotional Intelligence (hereafter MEI) is a multidimensional construct proposed by D'Amico (2013, 2018a, 2018b), that focuses on beliefs about emotions in everyday life and on individuals' awareness of their own emotional abilities. This is measured in terms of discrepancies between individuals' self-perceptions of their emotional abilities and their actual performances on ability tests. To measure MEI, D'Amico (2013) created the IE-ACCME Test, a multi-method tool that includes self-report and performance methodologies for exploring the emotional dimensions described in Mayer and Salovey's (1997) theoretical model. People with high levels of MEI show a belief system giving high importance to emotions and low discrepancies between performance scores and self-report scale. People low levels of MEI may own a belief system giving low importance to emotions and show low concordance between self-reported emotional abilities and actual performance.
MEI may provide new and innovative insights into research on emotions and could offer important perspectives to professionals for promoting awareness of emotions throughout the life cycle (see also D'Amico & Geraci, 2022a; D'Amico, Ruggieri, & Geraci, 2024), as it has been already confirmed in the first studies by authors (D'Amico & Geraci, 2021; D'Amico & Geraci, 2022a).