Adolescents’ emotional abilities and stress coping strategies: The moderating role of gender

• Authors: Joanna Piekarska , Katarzyna Martowska

Abstracts

EN

Emotional intelligence (EI) is conceptualized as a personality trait or an ability. Most of conducted studies on EI-coping association referred to trait emotional intelligence. Therefore, the role of ability emotional intelligence is less clear and need to be further studied. The present study examined the relationship between two EI abilities (emotion recognizing and emotion understanding) and stress coping strategies in adolescent men and women. The data were collected from 1033 Polish high school students (520 men and 512 women) aged 18-20 years (Mage = 18.46 years). Coping strategies were assessed using the COPE inventory and emotional abilities were measured using the Emotional Intelligence Scale – Faces (SIE-T) and the Emotion Understanding Test (TRE). The results supported the existence of an association between EI abilities and coping strategies. The analyses of the interaction effects revealed the moderating role of gender on some of the relationships between EI abilities and coping strategies.

Keywords

EN

emotional intelligence; stress coping strategies; emotion recognizing; emotion understanding

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 189-200

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Joanna Piekarska

author

Katarzyna Martowska

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2121885