The present study investigated the extent to which inter-personal skills, personality, and emotional intelligence (EI) were related to the extent of usage of the Internet, as measured with the Internet Addiction Scale, on a sample of undergraduates. EI was assessed by performance measures derived from the identification and labeling of emotions as shown in pictures of facial expressions, and as interpreted from descriptions of social episodes. Use of the Internet was related to loneliness and adherence to idiosyncratic values (strong effects), and also to poorer balance between work and leisure and emotional intelligence (weaker effects). Big Five personality dimensions were also included in the study. No link was found between personality and usage of the Internet. Results suggest that frequent users tend to be lonely, to have deviant values, and to some extent to lack the emotional and social skills characteristic of high EI.

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The focus of this study is on the recall of emotional reactions and their consistency in flashbulb memories of the Estonia ferry disaster on the Baltic Sea in September of 1994. Subjects were asked for their recollections of the circumstances surrounding the news, along with ratings of em otional reactions shortly after the event and one year later. This study also explored whether recollection of emotion predicts m em ory quantity or consistency. Results show ed that personal circumstances when receiving the news of the Estonia ferry disaster were well retained, although far from perfectly. Less than one third of the subjects could accurately recall their emotional reactions experienced upon learning about the news, but they were not more consistent in their recall of circumstantial event inform ation as compared to the rest of the subjects.

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As the notion of money tends to be imbued with salient emotions, it is plausible that emotional intelligence (EI) has a bearing on the efficacy to cope with emotion‐eliciting issues involving money. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which money attitudes relate to EI. The study included a sample of 212 respondents who filled out a questionnaire with items of the Money Attitude Scale (MAS) developed by Yamauchi and Templer (1982). The questionnaire further contained a test of EI performance consisting of judging emotions in facial expressions, and of self‐report measures considered to be subscales of EI. Results suggested that high levels of EI imply a less pronounced orientation toward money and a greater sense of economic self‐efficacy. Furthermore, money orientation seemed to be linked to worse adjustment of work vs. family/leisure time.