Mikolajczak Moïra, Roy Emmanuel, Luminet Olivier, Fillée Catherine, de Timary Philippe
Department of Psychology, Research Unit for Emotion, Cognition and Health, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2007 Sep-Nov;32(8-10):1000-12. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.07.009. Epub 2007 Nov 1.
The construct of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) refers to the individual differences in the perception, processing, regulation and utilization of emotional information. Several studies have found that trait EI was a significant moderator of subjective responses (e.g., mood deterioration, emotional intensity, action tendencies, bodily sensations) to both natural and laboratory stressors. The present study aims at extending these findings by examining whether trait EI also moderates the biological (i.e., cortisol) response to stress. To this end, 56 participants were assigned to either a neutral or a stressful condition (public speech task) and psychological and cortisol reactivity were examined. Results revealed that higher trait EI scores were associated with significantly lower reactivity to stress at both psychological (i.e., mood deterioration) and biological (i.e., salivary cortisol) levels. Additional analyses revealed that trait EI had incremental validity to predict stress reactivity over and above social desirability, alexithymia and the five-factor model of personality.
特质情绪智力（trait EI）这一概念指的是个体在情绪信息的感知、处理、调节和利用方面的差异。多项研究发现，特质EI是对自然和实验室应激源的主观反应（如情绪恶化、情绪强度、行动倾向、身体感觉）的重要调节因素。本研究旨在通过检验特质EI是否也调节对应激的生物学（即皮质醇）反应来扩展这些发现。为此，56名参与者被分配到中性或应激条件（公开演讲任务）下，并检测其心理和皮质醇反应性。结果显示，较高的特质EI得分与心理（即情绪恶化）和生物学（即唾液皮质醇）水平上对应激的显著较低反应性相关。进一步分析表明，特质EI在预测应激反应性方面，除了社会期望、述情障碍和人格五因素模型之外，具有增量效度。
