Lecture 6

1. KV Petrides Lecture 6 Trait emotional intelligence Dr. KV Petrides www.psychometriclab.com

2. 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. KV Petrides

3. KV Petrides 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).

4. KV Petrides The incremental validity of trait EI N = 200 Petrides, Pérez, & Furnham, 2007 N = 212; Spain

5. KV Petrides Trait EI: Experimental studies I Petrides & Furnham, 2003; EJP Nsub = 20, Npool = 85 F(1, 18) = 5.04, p <.05

6. KV Petrides Trait EI: Experimental studies II Nsub = 30, Npool = 102; Residualized trait EI Petrides & Furnham, 2003; EJP Tension Depression Anger Vigour Confusion POMS

7. Petrides et al., 2004; N = 650; PAID KV Petrides Trait EI and academic performance I

8. KV Petrides 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.

9. KV Petrides Trait EI and academic performance III +1 SD Petrides, Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004; N = 650; PAID

10. Petrides, Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004; PAID KV Petrides 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). <.05 <.05

11. KV Petrides Trait EI at work Petrides & Furnham, 2006; N = 167; JASP

12. KV Petrides Petrides et al., 2006a; N = 160; 10.8 years; Soc. Dev. Self- and other-ratings of trait EI Petrides, Niven, & Mouskounti, 2006b; N = 35 ballet students; Psicothema

13. KV Petrides Trait EI and communicative anxiety L1; N = 425 L2; N = 406 Dewaele, Petrides, & Furnham, 2008; Language Learning

14. Trait EI in children I KV Petrides Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008; ECAP

15. Trait EI in children II KV Petrides Mavroveli, Petrides, Shove, & Whitehead, 2008; ECAP

16. Trait EI in children III KV Petrides Mavroveli, Petrides, Sangareau, & Furnham, 2009; BJEP

17. Trait EI and teen self-harm KV Petrides Mikolajczak, Petrides, & Hurry 2009; BJHP

18. Trait EI in Asperger’s Syndrome Petrides, Hudry, Michalaria, Swami, & Sevdalis, 2011; Autism KV Petrides

19. K. V. Petrides Trait EI and body image Swami et al., 2010; PAID

20. Behavioral genetics of trait EI K. V. Petrides Vernon, Petrides, Bratko, & Shermer, J. A. (2008); Emotion KV Petrides July 2009, Athens GREECE

21. Trait EI and big five – Genetic analysis KV Petrides N E O A C Vernon, Villani, Aitken Schermer, & Petrides, 2008; TRHG

22. Trait EI and humor styles – Genetic analysis KV Petrides Vernon et al., 2009; JID

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24. 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.). KV Petrides

25. KV Petrides 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.)

26. KV Petrides 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

27. The trait emotional intelligence research programme KV Petrides International links UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain. Research divisions Psychometric Educational Industrial/Organizational Child/Human Development Behavioural Genetic Current & past funding bodies ESRC Nuffield Foundation British Academy University of London Students PhD:E. Gökçen BA, BSc, MA, MSc, MPhil www www.psychometriclab.com Google: trait EI