Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 15;7(1):11700. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12000-7.
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to perceive, use, understand, and regulate emotions. Higher scores on this ability measured through performance tests (but no through self-reports) appears to be related to better performance on "hot" (emotionally laden) cognitive tasks. However, there are relatively few studies concerning how EI may benefit the working memory capacity (WMC). Thus, the objective of this study is to analyse the relationship between EI (as measured through a performance-based ability test, a self-report mixed test, and a self-report ability test) and the WMC during the performance of hot and "cool" (i.e., non-emotionally laden) "2-back" tasks. 203 participants completed three EI tests as well as two 2-back tasks. The results provide evidence for better performance of higher EI participants (specifically in the managing branch) measured through the performance-based ability test, but only on the hot task. For the self-report mixed model, incongruent results were found, and no correlations were obtained using the self-report ability model. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of the validity of the various EI models.
情绪智力（EI）是指感知、运用、理解和调节情绪的能力。通过表现测试（而不是自我报告）测量的这种能力的得分较高，似乎与“热”（情绪负荷）认知任务的更好表现有关。然而，关于 EI 如何有益于工作记忆容量（WMC）的研究相对较少。因此，本研究的目的是分析 EI（通过基于表现的能力测试、混合自我报告测试和自我报告能力测试来衡量）与执行“热”和“冷”（即非情绪负荷）“2 位回”任务时的 WMC 之间的关系。203 名参与者完成了三个 EI 测试以及两个 2 位回任务。结果表明，在表现测试中，得分较高的 EI 参与者（特别是在管理分支）表现更好，但仅在热任务中。对于混合自我报告模型，得到了不一致的结果，而使用自我报告能力模型则没有获得相关性。这些发现的意义在各种 EI 模型的有效性方面进行了讨论。
