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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,596 Views
22 Pages

Socio-emotional abilities have been proposed as an extension to models of intelligence, but earlier measurement approaches have either not fulfilled criteria of ability measurement or have covered only predominantly receptive abilities. We argue that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Socio-Emotional Ability Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,494 Views
17 Pages

This study investigated correlative, factorial, and structural relationships between scores for ability emotional intelligence in the workplace (measured with the Geneva Emotional Competence Test), as well as fluid and crystallized abilities (measure...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,742 Views
14 Pages

Emotionally intelligent people are thought to be more skilled in recognizing, thinking about, using, and regulating emotions. This construct has garnered considerable interest, but initial enthusiasm has faded and it is time to take stock. There is c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,760 Views
21 Pages

Resilience Coping in Preschool Children: The Role of Emotional Ability, Age, and Gender

  • Huaruo Chen,
  • Qiuyun Hong,
  • Jie Xu,
  • Fei Liu and ,
  • Ya Wen and
  • Xueying Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background: In the process of children’s physical and mental development, emotional ability is an important part of their cognitive and social ability. Resilience in the face of difficulties or setbacks and other adversity will also produce differenc...

(This article belongs to the Section Children's Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
15,145 Views
17 Pages

5 February 2019

The present study analyzes the Mobile Emotional Intelligence Test (MEIT), a new ability-test to assess emotional intelligence (EI) in a digital way. Taking into account the importance of emotional competencies in the study of employees’ wellbei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
14,506 Views
11 Pages

9 March 2020

Based on a primary prevention perspective, the main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between ability emotional intelligence, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and well-being indicators (e.g., psychological well-being and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Being and Happiness for Harmonization of Natural and Cultural Resources: Cross-Cultural Pillars of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,953 Views
17 Pages

In recent years, patient mistreatment of healthcare workers, especially nurses, has been frequent, endangering the interests of organizations while also threatening nurses’ own development. This study aims to examine from the perspective of nurses’ p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,068 Views
14 Pages

10 May 2021

Emotional intelligence (EI) is considered a determinant of sports performance. Two opposing perspectives have been discussed in the theoretical discourse on EI: EI as an ability versus EI as a trait, both widely differing in content and method of ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,918 Views
16 Pages

Ability Emotional Intelligence and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents: The Role of Positive and Negative Affect

  • Desirée Llamas-Díaz,
  • Rosario Cabello,
  • Raquel Gómez-Leal,
  • María José Gutiérrez-Cobo and ,
  • Alberto Megías-Robles and
  • Pablo Fernández-Berrocal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Adolescence is an increasingly vulnerable period for the onset of affective disorders and other mental health issues that can significantly impact an individual’s subjective well-being. This study aims to examine the relationship between emotio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
16,997 Views
22 Pages

20 February 2023

This meta-analysis examined the correlation between social–emotional skills and reading ability and identified possible moderators by synthesizing 285 correlations from 37 studies among 38 samples with 28,404 participants. Results showed a sign...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Students’ Emotions in Learning Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,638 Views
27 Pages

Predicting Leadership Status Through Trait Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Ability

  • Bogdan S. Zadorozhny,
  • K. V. Petrides,
  • Yongtian Cheng,
  • Stephen Cuppello and
  • Dimitri van der Linden

11 March 2025

Many interconnected factors have been implicated in the prediction of whether a given individual occupies a managerial role. These include an assortment of demographic variables such as age and gender as well as trait emotional intelligence (trait EI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring New Frontiers in Psychometrics: Advancing Measurement of Skills and Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,157 Views
16 Pages

Parent Perspectives of Behavioral and Emotional Development of Young High-Ability Children: A Pilot Study

  • Benna S. Haas,
  • Laura S. McCorkle,
  • Thomas W. Connors,
  • Erin R. FitzPatrick and ,
  • Michael S. Matthews and
  • Julianna Willis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

We conducted a thematic analysis of 25 parent responses to open-ended survey questions from the Behavioral Assessment System for Children (BASC-3) regarding their young, high-ability children’s behavioral and emotional development. Our analysis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotions, Emotion Mindsets, and Emotional Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,492 Views
14 Pages

Children with below average cognitive ability represent a substantial yet under-researched population for whom cognitive and social demands, which increase in complexity year by year, may pose significant challenges. This observational study examines...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,411 Views
14 Pages

Reconceptualizing Emotion Recognition Ability

  • Konstantinos Kafetsios and
  • Ursula Hess

Emotion decoding accuracy (EDA) plays a central role within the emotional intelligence (EI) ability model. The EI-ability perspective typically assumes personality antecedents and social outcomes of EI abilities, yet, traditionally, there has been ve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,171 Views
36 Pages

Just as receptive emotional abilities, productive emotional abilities are essential for social communication. Although individual differences in receptive emotional abilities, such as perceiving and recognizing emotions, are well-investigated, indivi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,724 Views
13 Pages

Intelligence and Sensory Sensitivity as Predictors of Emotion Recognition Ability

  • Katja Schlegel,
  • Joëlle S. Witmer and
  • Thomas H. Rammsayer

The ability to recognize emotions from nonverbal cues (emotion recognition ability, ERA) is a core component of emotional intelligence, which has recently been conceptualized as a second-stratum factor of intelligence (MacCann et al., 2014). However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,260 Views
38 Pages

Development and Validation of an Ability Measure of Emotion Understanding: The Core Relational Themes of Emotion (CORE) Test

  • James L. Floman,
  • Marc A. Brackett,
  • Matthew L. LaPalme,
  • Annette R. Ponnock and ,
  • Sigal G. Barsade and
  • Aidan Doyle
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Emotion understanding (EU) ability is associated with healthy social functioning and psychological well-being. Across three studies, we develop and present validity evidence for the Core Relational Themes of Emotions (CORE) Test. The test measures pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
42 Citations
26,366 Views
27 Pages

Interoceptive Ability and Emotion Regulation in Mind–Body Interventions: An Integrative Review

  • Alessandro Lazzarelli,
  • Francesca Scafuto,
  • Cristiano Crescentini,
  • Alessio Matiz and ,
  • Graziella Orrù,
  • Rebecca Ciacchini,
  • Gaspare Alfì,
  • Angelo Gemignani and
  • Ciro Conversano
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 November 2024

It is increasingly recognized that interoceptive ability, the capacity to detect, interpret, and consciously integrate signals related to the physiological condition of the body, is central to emotion experience and regulation. Interoceptive ability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,808 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

Emotion-regulation ability and strategy (i.e., the specific behaviors used to manage feelings) are crucial for preschoolers’ socioemotional development. This study investigated whether a structured picture-book intervention could enhance these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,193 Views
15 Pages

This paper examines emotion regulation defined as one of the components of emotional intelligence ability and tests how emotion regulation predicts academic achievement, relationship quality, and affective well-being outcomes in adolescents. Specific...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Development and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,720 Views
18 Pages

Emotional clarity is one facet of emotional intelligence that refers to one’s meta-understanding of and ability to identify and describe feelings. The existing research has largely focused on trait emotional clarity and its benefits for greater...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
23 Pages

Emotion recognition is essential for social adaptation and mental health. However, existing measures still rely on limited stimulus materials or simplified task formats, which restricts ecological validity. The present study aimed to construct a loca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotions, Well-Being and Intelligence: Assessment, Interventions and Professional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,321 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2024

Background: The experimental evaluation of young children’s socio-emotional abilities is limited by the lack of existing specific measures to assess this population and by the relative difficulty for researchers to adapt measures designed for t...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Mental Health)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,532 Views
62 Pages

Social–Emotional and Educational Needs of Higher Education Students with High Abilities: A Systematic Review

  • Marianne Nannings,
  • Marjolijn van Weerdenburg,
  • Petrie J. A. C. van der Zanden and
  • Lianne Hoogeveen

14 June 2025

Students with high intellectual abilities in higher education face a significant risk of underachievement due to a range of influencing factors. This systematic review explored their social–emotional and educational needs and examined intervent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and Emotional Development of Gifted and Talented Individuals in a Rapidly Changing World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,206 Views
21 Pages

This cross-sectional study investigated the interconnected roles of university students’ mindsets (growth and fixed), perceptions of writing feedback, and academic emotion regulation in shaping self-regulated writing ability. Data were collecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,381 Views
19 Pages

There is much less research on the relationship between shift work and positive states experienced in the workplace, e.g., emotions and work ability. Using the job demands-resources model, conservation of resources theory and the broaden-and-build th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Effects and Management of Shift Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,343 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2023

Reducing gender bias in STEM is key to generating more equality and contributing to a more balanced workforce in this field. Spatial ability and its components are cognitive processes crucial to success in STEM education and careers. Significant gend...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,775 Views
15 Pages

Emotional Regulation and Control implies a person’s ability to respond to stressful demands and emotional experiences in a socially acceptable and adaptive way. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the contribution of the abilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Burnout in Healthcare Workers: A Public Health Issue in 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,623 Views
14 Pages

This investigation aimed to explore the mediator role of study engagement (i.e., study vigor and dedication) in the association between self- and other-focused emotion regulation abilities and occupational commitment in a sample of pre-service teache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Stress and Health: Psychological Burden and Burnout)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,007 Views
11 Pages

Previous research on ability emotional intelligence (EI) has shown that EI positively contributes to different positive life outcomes. However, the role of EI abilities in prosocial behaviour (PSB) has not been sufficiently investigated. The aim of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
16,048 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2019

Based on previous findings, which found that the three facets of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) have varying effects on job performance, this study investigates the relationship between emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence (CI),...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,972 Views
21 Pages

Emotion Recognition Ability in Preschoolers: Outcomes of a Socio-Emotional Intervention

  • Alessandro De Santis,
  • Giusi Antonia Toto,
  • Guendalina Peconio,
  • Annamaria Petito and
  • Pierpaolo Limone

27 February 2026

Background: Emotion recognition ability (ERA) plays a central role in children’s socio-emotional functioning, supporting early social interactions. This study examined whether ERA shows a pre–post change in a classroom-based training cont...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Youth Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,950 Views
13 Pages

The Protective Association of Trait and Ability Emotional Intelligence with Adolescent Tobacco Use

  • Sara González-Yubero,
  • Susana Lázaro-Visa and
  • Raquel Palomera Martín

The present study is one of the first to analyze the predictive capacity of both trait and ability Emotional Intelligence (EI) based on the Mayer and Salovey model, in relation to tobacco use in a sample of Spanish adolescents. In this study, 799 stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,073 Views
10 Pages

The study of emotional intelligence (EI) in work environments is a trending topic. However, few studies have examined the relationship between EI and salary. Therefore, the presented research aims to analyze the influence of EI on salary using a mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Organizational Values and Mental Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
14,869 Views
22 Pages

Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,233 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2024

The Work Ability Index (WAI) is the most commonly used tool for evaluating work capacity. Self-assessments made by workers can be influenced by various occupational and emotional factors. We wanted to study the association of work-related factors, su...

(This article belongs to the Topic Exploring the Interplay of Psychology and Work-Related Health and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,433 Views
14 Pages

5 November 2024

This study examined the relationship between cognitive ability (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) in predicting a range of different performance metrics from a call centre environment. In all, 303 call centre staff completed multi-dimensional measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,058 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of 9.375 GHz Microwave Radiation on the Emotional and Cognitive Abilities of Mice

  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Xuelong Zhao,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Menghua Li and ,
  • Bin Sun,
  • Anning Gao,
  • Lihui Zhang,
  • Shuang Wu,
  • Xiaoman Liu and
  • Changzhen Wang
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

In recent years, high-power microwave (HPM) technology has developed rapidly. However, the current research mainly focuses on how to improve its performance and its impact on electronic devices, and there has been relatively little research on its ef...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Neurobiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,910 Views
15 Pages

The role of emotional intelligence (EI) in the academic context has been steadily established, together with its impact on students’ academic achievement, well-being, and professional success. Therefore, this study examined the development of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Skills in Students)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,361 Views
17 Pages

In this article, we provide preliminary evidence for the ‘hypersensitivity hypothesis’, according to which Emotional Intelligence (EI) functions as a magnifier of emotional experience, enhancing the effect of emotion and emotion information on thinki...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Socio-Emotional Ability Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,789 Views
12 Pages

Cognitive Profile Discrepancy as a Possible Predictor of Emotion Dysregulation in a Clinical Sample of Female Adolescents with Suicidal Behavior

  • Flora Furente,
  • Federica Annecchini,
  • Emilia Matera,
  • Sabrina Serafino and ,
  • Giorgia Frigeri,
  • Alessandra Gabellone,
  • Lucia Margari and
  • Maria Giuseppina Petruzzelli
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Emotional dysregulation (ED) has not yet been defined as a clinical entity, although it plays an important role in child and adolescent psychopathology. It is a transdiagnostic construct defined as the inability to regulate the intensity and quality...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,083 Views
17 Pages

Emotional Intelligence as Evaluative Activity: Theory, Findings, and Future Directions

  • Michael D. Robinson,
  • Muhammad R. Asad and
  • Roberta L. Irvin

The question of whether ability-related emotional intelligence (ability EI) predicts important life outcomes has attracted considerably more attention than the question of what ability EI consists of. In the present paper, the authors draw from the a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ability-Related Emotional Intelligence: Knowns, Unknowns, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,157 Views
15 Pages

27 October 2022

This study aimed to explore the possible moderating role of emotional regulation in the relationship between problem-solving ability, visuomotor precision and visuospatial integration on the one hand and school results on the other in pupils with ADH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,039 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2023

The purpose of this study is to analyze how general characteristics, emotional labor, empathy ability, and wisdom affect the psychological well-being of female caregivers. The research design is a descriptive correlational study. Data were collected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,316 Views
11 Pages

Emotional Intelligence and the Different Manifestations of Bullying in Children

  • Jesús M. Alvarado,
  • Amelia Jiménez-Blanco,
  • Teresa Artola,
  • Santiago Sastre and
  • Carolina M. Azañedo

The main objective of this research was to help clarify the relationship between ability emotional intelligence (AEI) and bullying in children. Bullying is a maladaptive behaviour that generates severe adverse consequences in the school environment a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Development and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,297 Views
12 Pages

25 August 2022

Background: With the development of educational philosophy, physical exercise is considered to be an important factor in the development of individual cognitive abilities in adolescents. However, the effects of physical exercise on non-cognitive abil...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Pediatric Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
728 Views
23 Pages

Emotional exhaustion has been discussed as a major contributor to work ability problems, with substantial economic, individual, and social consequences. Research largely focuses on specific professions and sometimes overlooks that exhaustion and work...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral and Mental Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,484 Views
31 Pages

The Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) or three-stratum model of intelligence envisions human intelligence as a hierarchy. General intelligence (g) is situated at the top, under which are a group of broad intelligences such as verbal, visuospatial processing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Socio-Emotional Ability Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,831 Views
31 Pages

How Multidimensional Is Emotional Intelligence? Bifactor Modeling of Global and Broad Emotional Abilities of the Geneva Emotional Competence Test

  • Daniel V. Simonet,
  • Katherine E. Miller,
  • Kevin L. Askew,
  • Kenneth E. Sumner and ,
  • Marcello Mortillaro and
  • Katja Schlegel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Drawing upon multidimensional theories of intelligence, the current paper evaluates if the Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECo) fits within a higher-order intelligence space and if emotional intelligence (EI) branches predict distinct criteria rel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Socio-Emotional Ability Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
12,754 Views
34 Pages

29 April 2022

Emotional regulation (ER) as a concept is not clearly defined, and there is a lack of clarity about how individuals can improve their ability to regulate emotions. Nevertheless, there is increasing evidence of the importance of ER as a transdiagnosti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Cognitive and Behavior Psychotherapies)

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