COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL VARIABLES IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

• Authors: Sanz De Acedo Lizarraga M. L. , Sanz De Acedo Baquedano M. T. , Pollan Rufo Maria Milagros
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the importance that university students attach to cognitive variables in their emotional experiences. Specifically, the following variables were assessed: knowledge of emotional content, control of mood states and emotional reactions, generation of emotions that facilitate reflection, and appraisal of the effects of one's emotions on interpersonal behaviours. The study was carried out on a sample of 398 participants, male and female, students of humanities and social sciences and economic sciences and engineering, aged between 18 and 25 years. A 20-item questionnaire was elaborated and validated (the Cognition/Affect Questionnaire, CAQ) and rated on a response scale ranging from 1 (not at all important) to 5 (extremely important). The results show that the university students assessed differed significantly in the importance they attached to knowledge of emotions as a function of the degree studied, to control of mood states and emotional reactions as a function of age, and to social consequences of emotions as a function of their sex. They also show that the CAQ is a reliable and valid instrument. The implications for future research are discussed.

Keywords

EN

COGNITION; EMOTION; INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE; POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENTS; VARIABLES

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sanz De Acedo Lizarraga M. L.

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Sanz De Acedo Baquedano M. T.

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Pollan Rufo Maria Milagros

• Departamento de Psicologia y Pedagogia, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Campus de Arrosadia, 31006 Pamplona, Spain

• Maria Luisa Lizarraga Sanz De Acedo, Departamento de Psicologia y Pedagogia, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Campus de Arrosadia, 31006 Pamplona, Spain

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08864