Week 9: L2: Emotional Intelligence In Relationships

Question 0

Trait model of EI

Answer 0

• dimensional personality construct
• typical-performance tests
• correlates with FFM factors
• emotional self-efficacy, or “emotion-related dispositions and self-perceptions”
• different facets depending on the specific measurement scale used

Question 1

Ability model of EI

Answer 1

• ability construct (like IQ)
• max-performance tests
• correlates with IQ
  Ability to
• perceive emotions in oneself and others accurately
• use emotions to facilitate thinking
• understand emotions, emotional language, and signals conveyed by emotion
• manage emotions as to attain specific goals

Question 2

EI and relationships

Answer 2

• emotional expression crucial, expressive partners happier
• individuals EI associated with own relationship satisfaction
• fictional partners EI-relevant skills and traits rated most desirable
• EI predicts love towards one’s partner
• 2 spouses with low EI experience substantially lower marital satisfaction than at least one high EI
• EI associated with social functioning in adolescents

Question 3

Perception of emotion

Answer 3

• capacity to recognize emotion in others’ facial and postural expressions
• perception of emotion positively predicted relationship well-being
• negative affect reciprocity / reciprocal feedback b/w satisfaction and perception of emotion
  • If satisfied, more likely to attend to content of repair phrases rather than negative affectivity during argument
  • if unsatisfied, more likely to attend to negative tone then content

Question 4

Using emotion to facilitate thought

Answer 4

• lack of research: operationalisation? Covered by empathy research
• relationship b/w EI and empathy
• empathy linked to relationship satisfaction
  • empathic traits affect rship satisfaction via social behaviors
  • perceived empathy and rship satisfaction

Question 5

Understanding emotions (within context of EI

Answer 5

• capacity to analyse, appreciate trends, understand outcomes
• emotion clarity neg related to perceiving partners support style as critical
• emotion knowledge predicted social competence in pre-schoolers

Question 6

Managing emotions (ER)

Answer 6

• cognitive reappraisal associated with better recall of facts of conversation; suppression associated w memory of emotional experience during conversation
• reappraisal intervention predicts marital quality 1 yr later
• sacrifice-related suppression predicted decrease in rship satisfaction 3 months later (interdependence plays a role)
• managing others emotions predicted team cohesion via effective communication
• emotion regulation knowledge increased association b/w machiavellianism and interpersonal deviance
• co-regulation: interpersonal or social affect regulation

Question 7

Trait EI and rships

Answer 7

• imagine diff associations with rships than ability EI
• being personality construct, would assume it impacts upon perceptions of rships (satisfaction), as opposed to specific behaviors

Question 8

Trait EI research

Answer 8

• participants and partners EI related to marital satisfaction
• own EI predicts rship satisfaction 1 yr later (but not partners)
• high-EI girls rated as more pro-Social in adolescence

Question 9

Associations b/w rship satisfaction and perceptions of partners EI score

Answer 9

• satisfied ppl more likely to have higher EI, and view partners as having higher EI
• satisfied couples more likely to rate partners EI as more similar to their own

Question 10

Correlates of trait EI

Answer 10

• social skills
• self-monitoring
• cooperation
• inclusion and affection in close rships

Question 11

Methodological considerations in trait EI research

Answer 11

• importance of considering multiple factors in emotion-rship research
  • greater consideration of partner, longitudinal studies, mediating variables
• distinction b/w ability and trait models of EI
  • different theoretical underpinnings
  • difference in speciality of hypotheses