Coccaro Emil F, Solis Oscar, Fanning Jennifer, Lee Royce
Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Psychiatr Res. 2015 Feb;61:135-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.11.004. Epub 2014 Nov 21.
Emotional intelligence (EI) relates to one's ability to recognize and understand emotional information and then, to use it for planning and self-management. Given evidence of abnormalities of emotional processing in impulsively aggressive individuals, we hypothesized that EI would be reduced in subjects with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED: n = 43) compared with healthy (n = 44) and psychiatric (n = 44) controls. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) was used to assess both Experiential EI and Strategic EI. Strategic, but not Experiential, EI was lower in IED compared with control subjects. These differences were not accounted for demographic characteristics, cognitive intelligence, or the presence of clinical syndromes or personality disorder. In contrast, the relationship between IED and Strategic EI was fully accounted for by a dimension of hostile cognition defined by hostile attribution and hostile automatic thoughts. Interventions targeted at improving Strategic EI and reducing hostile cognition will be key to reducing aggressive behavior in individuals with IED.
情商（EI）与一个人识别和理解情绪信息的能力相关，然后将其用于规划和自我管理。鉴于有证据表明冲动攻击性个体存在情绪加工异常，我们假设与健康对照组（n = 44）和精神疾病对照组（n = 44）相比，间歇性爆发障碍（IED：n = 43）患者的情商将会降低。采用梅耶-萨洛维-卡鲁索情商测验（MSCEIT）评估经验性情商和策略性情商。与对照组相比，IED患者的策略性情商较低，但经验性情商无差异。这些差异不能用人口统计学特征、认知智力或临床综合征或人格障碍的存在来解释。相反，IED与策略性情商之间的关系完全由敌意归因和敌意自动思维所定义的敌意认知维度来解释。旨在提高策略性情商和减少敌意认知的干预措施将是减少IED患者攻击行为的关键。
