Emotion Regulation Abilities and the Quality of Social Interaction.

Abstract

Emotion regulation abilities, measured on a test of emotional intelligence, were related to several indicators of the quality of individuals' social interactions with peers. In a sample of 76 college students, emotion regulation abilities were associated with both self-reports and peer nominations of interpersonal sensitivity and prosocial tendencies, the proportion of positive vs. negative peer nominations, and reciprocal friendship nominations. These relationships remained statistically significant after controlling for the Big Five personality traits as well as verbal and fluid intelligence.

Friendship in High-functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mixed and Non-mixed Dyads

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A context-independent situational judgment test to measure prosocial implicit trait policy

“…Research has shown that people higher in emotional intelligence tend to criticize others less frequently (Brackett, Rivers, Schiffman, Lerner, & Salovey, 2006), behave less aggressively (Brackett, Mayer, & Warner, 2004), engage in less conflict with others (Lopes, Nezlek, Extremera, Hertel, Fernandez-Berrocal, Schutz, & Salovey, 2011), and help others more frequently (Lopes, Salovey, Côté, & Beers, 2005) than less emotionally intelligent people. Consequently, we expect that our measure of prosocial ITP will be correlated with both the understanding and management components of emotional intelligence (Libbrecht, Lievens, Carette, & Cote, 2014;MacCann & Roberts, 2008).…”

Prosocial knowledge mediates effects of agreeableness and emotional intelligence on prosocial behavior

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