Emotional intelligence and emotion regulation strategies

• Authors: Magdalena Śmieja , Dorota Kobylińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Do emotional abilities relate to specifi c strategies of emotion regulation? Do people with higher emotional intelligence (EI) use more effi cient affect regulation strategies? In the current study we tried to answer these questions. Using a sample of 349 undergraduate students, the present study explored the relationships between emotional intelligence (assessed with performance measure) and the habitual use of suppression and reappraisal. Results showed that higher emotional intelligence was related to more frequent use of reappraisal, and less frequent employment of suppression. As in the previous studies, males and females signifi cantly differed in suppression: men suppressed more than women. However, our results revealed that this difference could be attributed only to men with low EI. Emotionally unintelligent men used suppression more frequently not only in comparison to women, but also to men with higher EI. With respect to the habitual use of reappraisal, only men disclosed a signifi cant relation to EI level: those male participants who revealed the highest EI level declared employment of reappraisal more frequently than other groups.

Keywords

EN

emotional intelligence; emotion regulation strategies; reappraisal; suppression; gender differences

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 55-64

Dates

published

2011-11-01

online

2012-11-13

Contributors

author

Magdalena Śmieja

• Jagiellonian University

author

Dorota Kobylińska

• Warsaw University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10167-010-0040-x