Kim Yoon-Jung, Park Eun-Hee, Jon Duk-In, Jung Myung Hun, Hong Narei
Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Republic of Korea.
Psychiatry Investig. 2017 Sep;14(5):532-538. doi: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.5.532. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
Emotional intelligence (EI) is regarded an important factor related to psychiatric disorder. Most of previous studies of EI and depression only dealt with EI in present of depressive symptoms. Our study investigated EI both before and after remission of depression and to identify which component of EI is changeable by depression condition.
EI was evaluated for 23 depression patients and 44 normal control participants. Adult Emotional Quotient Test (AEQT) was used as subjective EI measure and Emotional Literacy Test (ELT) was used as objective EI measure to both groups.
During the initial evaluation of the subjective EI, patient group reported significantly lower scores than control group on all AEQT sub-domains except 'empathy'. However, group difference on 'utilization' disappeared after the remission evaluation. There was no significant difference within the objective EI measure.
According to the result of the study, EI could be sub-divided into trait-dependent EI and state-dependent EI. Further implication, strength and limitation were discussed.
情商(EI)被视为与精神障碍相关的一个重要因素。以往大多数关于EI与抑郁症的研究仅探讨了存在抑郁症状时的EI情况。我们的研究调查了抑郁症缓解前后的EI,并确定EI的哪些成分会因抑郁状况而发生变化。
对23名抑郁症患者和44名正常对照参与者进行了EI评估。两组均使用成人情商测试(AEQT)作为主观EI测量方法,使用情绪素养测试(ELT)作为客观EI测量方法。
在主观EI的初始评估中,除“同理心”外,患者组在AEQT所有子领域的得分均显著低于对照组。然而,在缓解评估后,“运用”方面的组间差异消失。客观EI测量中无显著差异。
根据研究结果,EI可分为特质依赖型EI和状态依赖型EI。进一步讨论了其意义、优势和局限性。