Alkozei Anna, Smith Ryan, Demers Lauren A, Weber Mareen, Berryhill Sarah M, Killgore William D S
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2019 Jun;122(3):853-879. doi: 10.1177/0033294118771705. Epub 2018 Apr 26.
Higher levels of emotional intelligence have been associated with better inter and intrapersonal functioning. In the present study, 59 healthy men and women were randomized into either a three-week online training program targeted to improve emotional intelligence ( = 29), or a placebo control training program targeted to improve awareness of nonemotional aspects of the environment ( = 30). Compared to placebo, participants in the emotional intelligence training group showed increased performance on the total emotional intelligence score of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, a performance measure of emotional intelligence, as well as subscales of perceiving emotions and facilitating thought. Moreover, after emotional intelligence training, but not after placebo training, individuals displayed the ability to arrive at optimal performance faster (i.e., they showed a faster learning rate) during an emotion-guided decision-making task (i.e., the Iowa Gambling Task). More specifically, although both groups showed similar performance at the start of the Iowa Gambling Task from pre- to posttraining, the participants in the emotional intelligence training group learned to choose more advantageous than disadvantageous decks than those in the placebo training group by the time they reached the "hunch" period of the task (i.e., the point in the task when implicit task learning is thought to have occurred). Greater total improvements in performance on the Iowa Gambling Task from pre- to posttraining in the emotional intelligence training group were also positively correlated with pre- to posttraining changes in Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test scores, in particular with changes in the ability to perceive emotions. The present study provides preliminary evidence that emotional intelligence can be trained with the help of an online training program targeted at adults; it also suggests that changes in emotional intelligence, as a result of such a program, can lead to improved emotion-guided decision-making.
较高的情商水平与更好的人际和个体内功能相关联。在本研究中，59名健康男性和女性被随机分为两组，一组参加为期三周的旨在提高情商的在线培训项目（n = 29），另一组参加旨在提高对环境非情感方面认知的安慰剂对照培训项目（n = 30）。与安慰剂组相比，情商培训组的参与者在梅耶-萨洛维-卡鲁索情商测试（一种情商表现测量）的总情商得分以及感知情绪和促进思维的子量表上表现有所提高。此外，在接受情商培训后，但不是安慰剂培训后，个体在情感引导决策任务（即爱荷华赌博任务）中表现出能够更快达到最佳表现的能力（即他们显示出更快的学习速度）。更具体地说，虽然两组在爱荷华赌博任务训练前到训练后的开始阶段表现相似，但情商培训组的参与者在任务进入“直觉”阶段（即被认为发生内隐任务学习的任务点）时，比安慰剂培训组的参与者学会选择更有利而非不利的牌组。情商培训组在爱荷华赌博任务训练前到训练后的表现总改善程度也与梅耶-萨洛维-卡鲁索情商测试分数的训练前到训练后变化呈正相关，特别是与感知情绪能力的变化相关。本研究提供了初步证据，表明情商可以通过针对成年人的在线培训项目进行训练；它还表明，由于这样一个项目导致的情商变化可以带来情感引导决策的改善。
