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Lecture 6

Trait emotional intelligenceTrait emotional intelligence

Dr. KV PetridesDr. KV Petrides

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Advantages of trait EI?

• Trait EI/trait emotional self-efficacy is a theory.– It is testable because it leads to specific predictions (e.g., scores

should be orthogonal to IQ).– It is falsifiable (e.g., low test-retest correlations).– It is general because it allows us to predict the behaviour of many

different measures.

• Trait EI/trait emotional self-efficacy theory is consistent with established individual differences models.– It lies wholly outside the realm of cognitive ability (also unrelated

to synonyms, like ‘skills,’ ‘competencies,’ etc.).– It is located at the lower levels of personality hierarchies.

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The validity of trait EI• Trait EI is associated with many different criteria:

– Coping styles (Mikolajczak et al., 2008; Petrides et al., 2007b).

– Emotion identification (Petrides & Furnham, 2003).– Humour styles (Greven et al., 2008; Vernon et al.,

2009)– Marital, life, and work satisfaction (Saklofske et al.,

2003; Schutte et al., 2001; Singh & Woods, 2008).– Mood (including sensitivity to mood induction and

mood recovery; Ciarrochi et al., 2001; Petrides et al., 2007a).

– Reaction time (Austin, 2009).– Self-harm in adolescence (Mikolajcak et al. 2009).

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The incremental validity of trait EIP

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Trait EI: Experimental studies IPetrides & Furnham, 2003; EJP Nsub = 20, Npool = 85

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Trait EI: Experimental studies IIPetrides & Furnham, 2003; EJP

Tension

Anger

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Nsub = 30, Npool = 102; Residualized trait EI

Depression

Vigour

POMS

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Trait EI and academic performance I

Petrides et al., 2004; N = 650; PAID

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Trait EI and academic performance II

• Petrides et al. (2004) showed that trait EI moderates the effects of IQ on English and overall GCSE performance such that:– For high IQ pupils, trait EI is not associated with

performance.– In contrast, for low IQ pupils, high trait EI is positively

associated with academic performance.

• It appears that such effects as trait EI might have on academic performance are likely to assume prominence when the demands of a situation tend to outweigh a pupil’s intellectual resources.

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Trait EI and academic performance III

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Petrides, Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004; N = 650; PAID

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Trait EI and behaviour at school• Pupils with high trait EI scores have fewer unauthorised absences

(truancy).

• Pupils with high trait EI scores are less likely to be expelled from their school for serious breaches of discipline (exclusions).

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Self- and other-ratings of trait EIPetrides, Niven, & Mouskounti, 2006b; N = 35 ballet students; Psicothema

Petrides et al., 2006a; N = 160; 10.8 years; Soc. Dev.

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Trait EI and communicative anxiety

L1; N = 425 L2; N = 406

Dewaele, Petrides, & Furnham, 2008; Language Learning

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Trait EI in children I

Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008; ECAP

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Trait EI in children II

Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008; ECAP

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Trait EI in children III

Mavroveli, Petrides, Sangareau, & Furnham, 2009; BJEP

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Trait EI and teen self-harm

Mikolajczak, Petrides, & Hurry 2009; BJHP

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Trait EI in Asperger’s SyndromePetrides, Hudry, Michalaria, Swami, & Sevdalis, 2011; Autism

K. V. PetridesTrait EI and body image

Swami et al., 2010; PAID

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Behavioral genetics of trait EI Vernon, Petrides, Bratko, & Shermer, J. A. (2008); Emotion

KV PetridesTrait EI and big five – Genetic analysis

Vernon, Villani, Aitken Schermer, & Petrides, 2008; TRHG

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Trait EI and humor styles – Genetic analysis

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Correlates of the TEIQue

• Correlates of the TEIQue– Positive

• Conscientiousness, mental health, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, seniority, pro-social behaviour, popularity, sensitivity and susceptibility to affect, over-prediction of affective reactions in decision-making, social desirability, hubris.

– Negative• Anxiety, introversion, psychopathology, turnover, maladaptive

coping, truancy, job stress, rumination, humility.

• The TEIQue provides comprehensive emotionality profiles and can be recommended for the reliable assessment of emotion-related individual differences in a variety of contexts (clinical, educational, experimental, occupational, etc.).

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Areas of application I

• Clinical– Diagnosis– Relationship to personality disorders

• Cross-cultural– Universality of sampling domain and structure

• Individualist versus collectivist cultures– Mean-level differences

• Educational– Streaming– Career counseling

• Experimental– Controlling for emotion-related individual differences variance that can distort

experimental results if ignored (particularly in small-sample research)– Investigating interactions with experimental conditions

• Occupational– Selection & assessment– Relationship to key indicators (productivity, turnover, stress, well-being, etc.)

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Areas of application II

• Ongoing– Psychoneuroendocrinology

– Nursing

– Emotion regulation

– Relationships research

– Leadership and organizational research

• Suggested– Brain localization studies (fMRI)

– Experimental economics and decision-making studies

– Clinical studies with various patient groups

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The trait emotional intelligence research programme

International linksUK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain.

Current & past funding bodiesESRC

Nuffield Foundation

British Academy

University of London

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Research divisionsPsychometric

Educational

Industrial/Organizational

Child/Human Development

Behavioural Genetic

StudentsPhD: E. Gökçen BA, BSc, MA, MSc, MPhil