w7 - Individual Difference in Emotion

Question 1

How do early definition conceive of emotional intelligence ?

Answer 1

As an ability

Question 2

What is the biggest dissagreement in the literature regarding ET?

Answer 2

Whether it can be measured as an ability (like I.Q), or not.

Question 3

Model of EI

What does the **ability ** model beleive about EI

Mayer & Salovey

Answer 3

EI is built from a subset of skills that form the larger whole of EI

Question 4

Model(s) of EI

How dose trait or mixed models differ ability models?

Answer 4

Trait and mixed models include self-reported skils in their measures

ability models do not include self-reports

Question 5

What is the difference between trait and mixed models?

Answer 5

Trait models : ONLY considers self reported skills.

Mixed = Trait (self-reports) + ability

Question 6

in 2016

What two aspects were added to Mayer & and Salovey Four-branch Model

Answer 6

Recognising cultural and contextual differences in emotion

Accurately forcasting future emotions: Affecting forcasting

Question 7

What does the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence task (MSCEIT) measure?

What four skills?

Answer 7

The four skills of perceived emotional intelligence.
1. Perceiving
2. Using
3. Understanding
4. Managing

Question 8

What does the MSCEIT test implicitly assume?

Answer 8

That there is no variance in how people perceive of conceptualise emotion

Contrary to psychological construction theory

Question 9

What does Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU) focus on, and which theory does it use?

Answer 9

Focuses on causes of emotions

Uses appraisal theory to determine correct answers, and assesses what causes emotions

Question 10

How does Situational Test of Emotional Understanding score EI?

Answer 10

Tests whether someone is able to correctly appraise a situation

Question 11

What is used to inform MSCEIT scoring?

Answer 11

Consensus scoring

Question 12

What are the 2 MSCEIT scoring keys, what is the issue?

Answer 12

1. Consensus among 21 WEIRD experts
2. Consensus amoung 5,000 test takes

Issue: very high correlation between both keys

Question 13

Limitation of ability models #1

Answers to it’s items

Answer 13

There are no objective answers to questions of EI

Unlike IQ

Question 14

Limitation of ability models #2

What do these tests ignore?

Answer 14

Context, culutre, and status.

Question 15

Limitation of ability models #3

Emotions are …

Answer 15

Complex

Question 16

What are the 5 scales of Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire ?

Answer 16

Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Adaptability
Stress Management
General Mood

Question 17

Limitation of mixed and trait models #1

Large overlap with …

Answer 17

Personality measures.

Larger than for ability tests.

Question 18

Limitation of mixed and trait models #2

Assesed using self reports

Answer 18

Vulnerable to social desirability / faking

Question 19

How is emotion differentiation defined?

Answer 19

Labelling emotional experiences with a high degree of accuracy

Question 20

Emotional differentiation and wellbeing

ppl hig vs. low in emotional differentiation were likely to do - what - during negative emotion

Answer 20

Drink less alcohol.

Question 21

Relationship between emotion regulation stratergies and emotion differentiators

Answer 21

Use of emotional regulation stratergies was less effective for low ED

More rumination

Question 22

What is one evidenced stratergy to improve ED?

Answer 22

Self-monitoring

Question 23

Ford & Gross, 2019

What two beliefs are theorised to be influential on our emotions?

Answer 23

1. To what extent are emotions good versus bad
2. To what extent are emotions controllable versus uncontrollable

Question 24

What is a belief that emotions helps assoicated with ?

2 assoications

Answer 24

Better performance on a stressful task

Higher perceived social support

Question 25

Difference between entity and incremental theories of emotion.

Answer 25

Entity: emotions are fixed

Incremental: emotions are changable

Question 26

What neglecting a belief that emtions are controlable lead to?

Answer 26

The adoption of less effective emotional stratergies
Avoidance