Fabio Annamaria Di
Department of Education and Psychology, University of Florence Florence, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 8;6:395. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00395. eCollection 2015.
Social support represents an important individual resource that has been associated with multiple indices of adaptive functioning and resiliency. Existing research has also identified an association between emotional intelligence (EI) and social support. The present study builds on prior research by investigating the contributions of ability based EI to social support, beyond the effects of fluid intelligence and personality traits. The Advanced Progressive Matrices, the Big Five Questionnaire, the Mayer Salovey Caruso EI test (MSCEIT), and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support were administered to 149 Italian high school students. The results showed that ability based EI added significant incremental variance in explaining perceived social support, beyond the variance due to fluid intelligence and personality traits. The results underline the role of ability based EI in relation to perceived social support. Since ability based EI can be increased through specific training, the results of the present study highlight new possibilities for research and intervention in a preventive framework.
社会支持是一种重要的个人资源,它与适应功能和恢复力的多个指标相关联。现有研究还发现了情商(EI)与社会支持之间的关联。本研究在先前研究的基础上,调查了基于能力的情商对社会支持的贡献,超越了流体智力和人格特质的影响。对149名意大利高中生进行了高级渐进矩阵测验、大五问卷、梅耶-萨洛维-卡鲁索情商测试(MSCEIT)和多维感知社会支持量表。结果表明,基于能力的情商在解释感知到的社会支持方面增加了显著的增量方差,超出了流体智力和人格特质所导致的方差。结果强调了基于能力的情商在感知社会支持方面的作用。由于基于能力的情商可以通过特定训练提高,本研究结果突出了在预防框架下进行研究和干预的新可能性。