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Increasing emotional competence improves psychological and physical well-being, social relationships, and employability.
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This study builds on earlier work showing that adult emotional competencies (EC) could be improved through a relatively brief training. In a set of 2 controlled experimental studies, the authors investigated whether developing EC could lead to improved emotional functioning; long-term personality changes; and important positive implications for physical, psychological, social, and work adjustment. Results of Study 1 showed that 18 hr of training with e-mail follow-up was sufficient to significantly improve emotion regulation, emotion understanding, and overall EC. These changes led in turn to long-term significant increases in extraversion and agreeableness as well as a decrease in neuroticism. Results of Study 2 showed that the development of EC brought about positive changes in psychological well-being, subjective health, quality of social relationships, and employability. The effect sizes were sufficiently large for the changes to be considered as meaningful in people's lives.
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“The first and foremost benefit of trait EI training is enhanced mental well-being: EI training leads both to a drop in psychological problems (e.g., burnout and distress) as well as to an increase in happiness, life satisfaction, and quality of life (Nelis et al., 2011; Vesely, Saklofske, & Nordstokke, 2014).”
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“According to a number of studies, emotional intelligence can be learned and improved through the implementation of intervention programs (Gilar-Corbi et al., 2019; Nelis et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- Nelis, D., Kotsou, I., Quoidbach, J., Hansenne, M., Weytens, F., Dupuis, P., & Mikolajczak, M.
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2011
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 354-366
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- OpenAlex
- W2153960019
- Cited by
- 472
- References
- 71
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- FWCI
- 21.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orbi.uliege.be
- Licence
- other-oa
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- Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Social Sciences › Education › Social Skills and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- emotional competence, emotion regulation, emotional understanding, personality change, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, psychological well-being, self-rated health, interpersonal relationships, employability, emotion training, adult development
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Employment, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Personality, Personality Inventory, Psychological Tests, Social Adjustment, Teaching, Emotional Intelligence
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