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Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research
Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as a global characteristic, and there are few widely...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10672494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37998709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11110210 |
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description | Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as a global characteristic, and there are few widely used performance-based tests for assessing ability EI. The present paper proposes avenues for advancing ability EI measurement by connecting the main EI components to models and theories from the emotion science literature and related fields. For emotion understanding and emotion recognition, we discuss the implications of basic emotion theory, dimensional models, and appraisal models of emotion for creating stimuli, scenarios, and response options. For the regulation and management of one’s own and others’ emotions, we discuss how the process model of emotion regulation and its extensions to interpersonal processes can inform the creation of situational judgment items. In addition, we emphasize the importance of incorporating context, cross-cultural variability, and attentional and motivational factors into future models and measures of ability EI. We hope this article will foster exchange among scholars in the fields of ability EI, basic emotion science, social cognition, and emotion regulation, leading to an enhanced understanding of the individual differences in successful emotional functioning and communication. |
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spelling | pubmed-106724942023-11-01 Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research Mortillaro, Marcello Schlegel, Katja J Intell Review Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as a global characteristic, and there are few widely used performance-based tests for assessing ability EI. The present paper proposes avenues for advancing ability EI measurement by connecting the main EI components to models and theories from the emotion science literature and related fields. For emotion understanding and emotion recognition, we discuss the implications of basic emotion theory, dimensional models, and appraisal models of emotion for creating stimuli, scenarios, and response options. For the regulation and management of one’s own and others’ emotions, we discuss how the process model of emotion regulation and its extensions to interpersonal processes can inform the creation of situational judgment items. In addition, we emphasize the importance of incorporating context, cross-cultural variability, and attentional and motivational factors into future models and measures of ability EI. We hope this article will foster exchange among scholars in the fields of ability EI, basic emotion science, social cognition, and emotion regulation, leading to an enhanced understanding of the individual differences in successful emotional functioning and communication. MDPI 2023-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10672494/ /pubmed/37998709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11110210 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Mortillaro, Marcello Schlegel, Katja Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title | Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title_full | Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title_fullStr | Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title_full_unstemmed | Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title_short | Embracing the Emotion in Emotional Intelligence Measurement: Insights from Emotion Theory and Research |
title_sort | embracing the emotion in emotional intelligence measurement: insights from emotion theory and research |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10672494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37998709 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11110210 |
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