Mortillaro Marcello, Schlegel Katja
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
J Intell. 2023 Nov 1;11(11):210. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence11110210.
Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as a global characteristic, and there are few widely used performance-based tests for assessing ability EI. The present paper proposes avenues for advancing ability EI measurement by connecting the main EI components to models and theories from the emotion science literature and related fields. For emotion understanding and emotion recognition, we discuss the implications of basic emotion theory, dimensional models, and appraisal models of emotion for creating stimuli, scenarios, and response options. For the regulation and management of one's own and others' emotions, we discuss how the process model of emotion regulation and its extensions to interpersonal processes can inform the creation of situational judgment items. In addition, we emphasize the importance of incorporating context, cross-cultural variability, and attentional and motivational factors into future models and measures of ability EI. We hope this article will foster exchange among scholars in the fields of ability EI, basic emotion science, social cognition, and emotion regulation, leading to an enhanced understanding of the individual differences in successful emotional functioning and communication.
在过去三十年里，情商（EI）作为一种科学概念已广受欢迎，但其概念化和测量仍存在局限性。应用情商研究常常忽视其组成部分，将其视为一种整体特征，而且几乎没有广泛使用的基于表现的测试来评估能力情商。本文通过将主要的情商组成部分与情感科学文献及相关领域的模型和理论相联系，提出了推进能力情商测量的途径。对于情绪理解和情绪识别，我们讨论了基本情绪理论、维度模型和情绪评估模型对创建刺激、情景和反应选项的影响。对于自身和他人情绪的调节与管理，我们讨论了情绪调节的过程模型及其对人际过程的扩展如何为情景判断项目的创建提供信息。此外，我们强调将情境、跨文化变异性以及注意力和动机因素纳入未来能力情商模型和测量中的重要性。我们希望本文能促进能力情商、基本情绪科学、社会认知和情绪调节等领域学者之间的交流，从而增进对成功情绪功能和沟通中个体差异的理解。
