Relationship of Emotional Intelligence with Pre-Hypertension and its Impact on Autonomic Nervous System as Assessed by Heart Rate Variability in Adult Males

Garg, S; Agarwal, JL

doi:10.5958/2320-608x.2019.00179.3

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“…Earlier studies have reported varying results regarding the difference in EI in males and females, ranging from women having relatively higher EI than men [ 89 ], among creative professionals men having higher EI than women [ 89 ], and among nursing students women reportedly having higher EI than men [ 90 ]. Research has shown that low EI males have lower parasympathetic and higher sympathetic activity at rest and are thus more prone to developing hypertension [ 91 ]. Two of the trait EI factors ‘perception of emotions’ and ‘managing own emotions’ have also shown significant correlation with cardiovascular measures of emotional arousal during sadness and cheerfulness in females [ 92 ].…”

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Multimodal prediction of trait emotional intelligence–Through affective changes measured using non-contact based physiological measures

2021

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Inability to efficiently deal with emotionally laden situations, often leads to poor interpersonal interactions. This adversely affects the individual’s psychological functioning. A higher trait emotional intelligence (EI) is not only associated with psychological wellbeing, educational attainment, and job-related success, but also with willingness to seek professional and non-professional help for personal-emotional problems, depression and suicidal ideation. Thus, it is important to identify low (EI) individuals who are more prone to mental health problems than their high EI counterparts, and give them the appropriate EI training, which will aid in preventing the onset of various mood related disorders. Since people may be unaware of their level of EI/emotional skills or may tend to fake responses in self-report questionnaires in high stake situations, a system that assesses EI using physiological measures can prove affective. We present a multimodal method for detecting the level of trait Emotional intelligence using non-contact based autonomic sensors. To our knowledge, this is the first work to predict emotional intelligence level from physiological/autonomic (cardiac and respiratory) response patterns to emotions. Trait EI of 50 users was measured using Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) along with their cardiovascular and respiratory data, which was recorded using FMCW radar sensor both at baseline and while viewing affective movie clips. We first examine relationships between users’ Trait EI scores and autonomic response and reactivity to the clips. Our analysis suggests a significant relationship between EI and autonomic response and reactivity. We finally attempt binary EI level detection using linear SVM. We also attempt to classify each sub factor of EI, namely–perception of emotion, managing own emotions, managing other’s emotions, and utilization of emotions. The proposed method achieves an EI classification accuracy of 84%, while accuracies ranging from 58 to 76% is achieved for recognition of the sub factors. This is the first step towards identifying EI of an individual purely through physiological responses. Limitation and future directions are discussed.

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Multimodal prediction of trait emotional intelligence–Through affective changes measured using non-contact based physiological measures

2021

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“…(Mikolajczak et al, 2007) (Laborde et al, 2011) A study showed that low EI males have lower parasympathetic and higher sympathetic activity at rest and are thus more prone to developing hypertension. (Garg & Agarwal, 2019) Another study showed that 2 trait EI factors-"perception of emotions" and "managing own emotions" show significant correlation with cardiovascular measures of emotional arousal during sadness and cheerfulness in females. (Papousek et al, 2008).Moreover, the few studies done show inconsistent results, a recent work by Zysberg and Raz (2019) found no association between trait EI and the cardiac vagal regulation during self-induced sadness unlike what was observed in the meta analysis recently done by Sarrionandia and Mikolajczak (2020).…”

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confidence: 99%