Flashcards in Week 9: L2: Emotional Intelligence In Relationships Deck (12)
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Ability model of EI
- 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
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Trait model of EI
- 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
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EI and relationships
- 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
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Perception of emotion
- 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
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Using emotion to facilitate thought
- 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
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Understanding emotions (within context of EI
- 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
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Managing emotions (ER)
- 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
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Trait EI and rships
- 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
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Trait EI research
- 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
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Associations b/w rship satisfaction and perceptions of partners EI score
- 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
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Correlates of trait EI
- social skills
- self-monitoring
- cooperation
- inclusion and affection in close rships
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