emotional intellegence

Question 1

definitions

Answer 1

“The ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.” (Salovey and Mayer (1990, p. 189)

Question 2

models and measures; Mayer and Salovey (four branch)

Answer 2

if EI is the tree the roots are managing emotions to obtain goals, understanding emotions, emotional language & the signals conveyed , using emotion to function thoughts, perceiving emotions accurately in self and others.

Question 3

EI test MSCEIT

Answer 3

test consists of 141 items taking approx 45 mins to complete. Each branch has two tasks to complete. Provides many scores, overall, 2 area, 4 branch, 8 task. Perceiving emotions task is used to represent emotion in a subjects face, and also artistic pieces. Women tend to score significantly higher

Question 4

quote about Extraversion - Meyer

Answer 4

…Although a trait such as extraversion may depend on social skill, or result in it, [it] is a…preference rather than an ability. Knowing what another person feels, in contrast, is a mental ability - Meyer

Question 5

Models and Measures; Goleman 1995

Answer 5

Formulates EI to performance - adapted EI to predict personal effectiveness in work through 5 traits; self awareness, self regulation, relationship management, empathy, self motivation.
Amagdyla is important for these. These are especially important in aggression and fear. Provided different descriptors for men and women

Question 6

Bar-on; inpiration

Answer 6

Inspired by darwinism

Question 7

Bar on; Ei in personality; well being model

Answer 7

Effective emotional and social functioning should lead to a sense of well being. Emotion social intellegence conists of abilities all allowing us to understand others and cope with our environment.

Question 8

Bar on - components

Answer 8

His components; stress management, adaptability, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills and general mood. No significant difference in gender overall but in some subscales there were.

Question 9

Bar on; EI abilities

Answer 9

Recognise emotions and express them
Understand how others feel with them
Control
Change and adapting emotions
Generate positive affect and be self motivated

Question 10

emotional quotient inventory

Answer 10

Emotiotional social int. Consists of interrelated emotional and social competences and abilities, these competences include 5 domains and 15 aspects.

Question 11

EQ-i method

Answer 11

Self report measures > contains 133 items, sale of 5 on relatability >5 scales match up to the 5 domains on the model. > scores then standardised and converted to an eq score > high score means effective ESI > lower score = difficulties in dailt demands and ESI difficulties

Question 12

A03; Eq-i

Answer 12

so many domains an aspects its highly unlikely one can harbour all aspects of EI, lack of common ground between these abilities helps show this

Question 13

EMPATHY; definitions

Answer 13

being able to take another POV and imagine their thought and emotions (Hodges and myers 2007) - an important trait as it underpins other psychological abilities such as moral reasoning.

Question 14

emotional regulation gross 1988

Answer 14

developing stratum to give parental guidence for childresn to understand emotional states and manage them; conscious processes, unconcious processes, internal and external factors. Difficulties regulating emotions typically stem from low

Question 15

A03 emotional regulation; Kochanska 2003

Answer 15

+one group of at risk children grew up with low response parents and they developed emotional regulation skills.

Question 16

Bornstein Regulation A03

Answer 16

High lvls of emotional availablitiy = good emotional regulation in infants (Bornstein 2012)

Question 17

Depressed mums A03

Answer 17

infants with depressed mothers deal with stress differently to kids without depressed mums (Manian and Bornstein 2009).

Question 18

dealing with low regulations (2)

Answer 18

Some ways to deal with this is to target specific behaviours like developing a way to prevent tantrums, the other way is to develop a greater EI; expanding a child’s ability to understand their own emotional states and those of others, as this can lead to an ability to arrest a emotional surge before it is beyond control.

Question 19

Applying EI; Workplace Cooper

Answer 19

people with higher EI show higher levels of success, personal relationships and leadership (Cooper 1997)

Question 20

Applying EI; Workplace Cavallo

Answer 20

Emotional competence inventroy high performers scores higher in all clusters of EI (Cavallo and Brienza).

Question 21

Applying EI; Workplace Lopes

Answer 21

Higher MSCEIT also showed these traits bar personal relationship (Lopes et al 2004)

Question 22

Applying in workplace a03; Barrett

Answer 22

• existing evidence of EI impacts are anecdotal, impressionistic (Barrett et al, 2001)

Question 23

Applying in workplace a03; Slaski

Answer 23

Several studies show negative results such as Slaski 2001 who found 224 middle and senior managers and data on AI tested “modest” links to EQ-i and mangerial performance.

Question 24

Creativity (applying EI) Geher/Sanchez

Answer 24

EI shows links to spontaneous creativity (Geher et al 2017), supported by sanchez and ruiz 2011.

Question 25

Creativity (applying EI) Carmeli

Answer 25

Emotional intellegent employees show high generosity these behaviours foster creative behaviours (Carmeli 2013).

Question 26

Applying EI; Petrides, frederickson and Furnham 2003

Answer 26

EI moderates iq and academic relationships. Lower IQ students struggle with demands of study however Positive self perceptions (a domain of EI) may improve this

Question 27

Wellbeing (applying ei) Di dabio 2012

Answer 27

EI associated with a variety of individual and social resources such as social support, resilience and self evaluation, Di Fabio 2012.

Question 28

Wellbeing (applying EI) Perera adn Mikolajczak.

Answer 28

Relationships between EI and social support between EI and coping efficiency, stress reduction and regulations (Perera 2015 and Mikolajczak 2008).

Question 29

wellbeing applting Ei; meta analysis

Answer 29

of 44 effect sizes based of 7800= participants found higher EI = better health (r=.29) however correlation does not mean causality

Question 30

Overall A03 too many definitons

Answer 30

Too mant definitions has led to a lack of meaning between them, correlation in scores between MSCEIT and EQi was only .21 (Meyer)

Question 31

a03 overall, is it real?

Answer 31

Defined as “ability to monitor ones self and others emotions and feelings; does this really require a special type of intelligence or a matter of focusing our attention inwards or outwards.

Question 32

a03 overall, arbitraty

Answer 32

Arbitrary to assign intelligence as a label to a skill

Question 33

EI and iq seperate; for

Answer 33

EI represents a different set of ability from iq or the big 5. Rosete 2005; EI is not only predicted leadership effectiveness but also explained variance not accounted for by either personality or iq

Question 34

is it sperate to iq; against

Answer 34

EI not much more different from iq and personality; Schulte et al 2004. Explores correlations between EI (used MSCEIT) and wonderlic personnel test (general intelligence). Found strong link between EI, IQ and personality as subjects were smarter, more emotionally stable and extraverted.