He Li, Mao Yu, Sun Jiangzhou, Zhuang Kaixiang, Zhu Xingxing, Qiu Jiang, Chen Xiaoyi
School of Education, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China.
Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 15;9:925. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00925. eCollection 2018.
Little is known about the association between emotional intelligence (EI) and trait creativity (TC), and the brain structural bases which involves. This study investigated the neuroanatomical basis of the association between EI and TC which measured by the Schutte self-report EI scale and the Williams creativity aptitude test. First, the voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis was used to explore the brain structures which is closely related to EI in a large young sample ( = 213). The results showed that EI was positively correlated with the regional gray matter volume (rGMV) in the right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which is regarded as a key region of emotional processing. More importantly, further mediation analysis revealed that rGMV in the right OFC partially mediated the association between EI and TC, which showed the OFC volume could account for the relationship between EI and TC. These findings confirmed the close relationship between EI and TC, and highlighted that the brain volumetric variation in the OFC associated with the top-down processing of emotion regulation, which may play a critical role in the promotion of TC. Together, these findings contributed to sharpening the understanding of the complex relationship between EI and TC from the perspective of brain structural basis.
关于情商（EI）与特质创造力（TC）之间的关联以及涉及的脑结构基础，人们了解甚少。本研究调查了通过舒特自我报告情商量表和威廉姆斯创造力能力测试所测量的EI与TC之间关联的神经解剖学基础。首先，基于体素的形态计量学（VBM）分析被用于在一个大型年轻样本（n = 213）中探索与EI密切相关的脑结构。结果显示，EI与右侧眶额皮质（OFC）的区域灰质体积（rGMV）呈正相关，该区域被视为情绪处理的关键区域。更重要的是，进一步的中介分析表明，右侧OFC的rGMV部分介导了EI与TC之间的关联，这表明OFC体积可以解释EI与TC之间的关系。这些发现证实了EI与TC之间的密切关系，并强调了与自上而下的情绪调节处理相关的OFC脑容量变化可能在促进TC方面发挥关键作用。总之，这些发现有助于从脑结构基础的角度加深对EI与TC之间复杂关系的理解。
