Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit S Double ◽  
Rebecca Pinkus ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Moderate Effect ◽  
Regulatory Flexibility ◽  
Emotionally Intelligent

Emotion regulation strategies have been characterized as adaptive or maladaptive; however, the ability to switch strategies to best suit the situation (regulatory flexibility and adaptability) underlies effective emotion regulation. Emotional intelligence may be a key capacity that enables flexible emotion regulation. We use experience sampling data from 165 participants to test whether emotional intelligence abilities (emotion understanding and management) predict variability in four emotion regulation strategies. Results show that both the emotion understanding and emotion management branches of emotional intelligence significantly relate to between-strategy variability (with moderate effect sizes), but only emotion understanding significantly predicts within-strategy variability. These findings support the hypothesis that emotional intelligence is an important predictor of the ability to flexibly vary emotion regulation depending on the situation.

scholarly journals Emotional Intelligence and Day-To-Day Emotion Regulation Processes: Examining Motives for Social Sharing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micaela Bucich ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotion Knowledge ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Social Sharing ◽  
Emotionally Intelligent

There is growing interest in the emotion regulation processes that underlie the adaptive functioning of emotionally intelligent individuals. This study uses experience sampling to examine whether the emotional intelligence (EI) of undergraduate students (N = 84) relates to their day-to-day use of five emotion regulation processes over a five-day period. We also test whether EI predicts motives for one of the emotion regulation processes (social sharing). We measure both ability EI (the brief Situational Test of Emotion Management) and self-rated EI (the Self-Rated Emotional Intelligence Scale). Self-rated EI significantly predicts more social sharing, direct situation modification and reappraisal. Ability EI does not significantly predict any of the five regulation processes. Both ability and self-rated EI are significantly related to greater bonding and relief motives for social sharing. Self-rated EI is also related to recovery motives. These results suggest that it is the self-beliefs about one’s emotional abilities, rather than emotion knowledge, which influence the emotion regulation processes people use in daily life.

scholarly journals Pathways between Ability Emotional Intelligence and Subjective Well-Being: Bridging Links through Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 2111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalio Extremera ◽  
Nicolás Sánchez-Álvarez ◽  
Lourdes Rey
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Ability Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Based on a primary prevention perspective, the main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between ability emotional intelligence, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and well-being indicators (e.g., psychological well-being and satisfaction with life), controlling for sociodemographic variables and personality traits in our analyses. Three hundred and seventy-eight college students (123 males; 252 females; 3 unreported) participated voluntarily in this study. We predicted that ability emotional intelligence would be significantly and positively correlated with well-being outcomes, and that cognitive emotion regulation strategies would mediate the associations between ability emotional intelligence and well-being, controlling for sociodemographic and personality traits. Structural equation modelling estimated by bootstrap method indicated that two adaptive cognitive coping strategies were found to act as partial mediators between ability emotional intelligence and well-being indicators. Our findings provide preliminary support for theoretical work linking ability emotional intelligence, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and well-being outcomes, and contribute to the understanding of how ability emotional intelligence is related to subjective well-being via specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies in college students.

The Influence of Daily Events on Emotion Regulation and Well-Being in Daily Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722098088
Author(s):  
David B. Newman ◽  
John B. Nezlek
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Total N ◽  
Daily Events ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

We examined within-person relationships among daily events, emotion regulation strategies, and well-being in daily life. Each day for 2 to 3 weeks, participants in two studies (total N = 445) reported the extent to which they reappraised and suppressed their positive and negative emotions, the types of events they experienced, and their well-being. Using multilevel modeling, we found that the extent to which people reappraised positive and negative emotions and suppressed negative emotions was positively related to the number/importance of daily positive events, whereas the suppression of positive emotions was negatively related. Furthermore, the positive relationships between well-being and reappraisal of positive and negative emotions and the suppression of negative emotions were stronger as the number of negative events increased. These results demonstrate that most emotion regulation strategies are employed when the day is going well but are most beneficial for people’s well-being when the day is not going well.

Post-print manuscript: Emotional Intelligence and Day-To-Day Emotion Regulation Processes: Examining Motives for Social Sharing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotion Knowledge ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Social Sharing ◽  
Emotionally Intelligent

There is growing interest in the emotion regulation processes that underlie the adaptive functioning of emotionally intelligent individuals. This study uses experience sampling to examine whether the emotional intelligence (EI) of undergraduate students (N = 84) relates to their day-to-day use of five emotion regulation processes over a five-day period. We also test whether EI predicts motives for one of the emotion regulation processes (social sharing). We measure both ability EI (the brief Situational Test of Emotion Management) and self-rated EI (the Self-Rated Emotional Intelligence Scale). Self-rated EI significantly predicts more social sharing, direct situation modification and reappraisal. Ability EI does not significantly predict any of the five regulation processes. Both ability and self-rated EI are significantly related to greater bonding and relief motives for social sharing. Self-rated EI is also related to recovery motives. These results suggest that it is the self-beliefs about one’s emotional abilities, rather than emotion knowledge, which influence the emotion regulation processes people use in daily life.

scholarly journals Theoretically-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies Using a Mobile App and Wearable Sensor Among Homeless Adolescent Mothers: Acceptability and Feasibility Study (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelle R Leonard ◽  
Bethany Casarjian ◽  
Richard R Fletcher ◽  
Cathleen Prata ◽  
Dawa Sherpa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Physiological Measurement ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Mhealth Technology

BACKGROUND Many adolescent mothers are parenting young children under highly stressful conditions as they are managing first-time parenthood, poverty, lack of housing, school and work, and challenging peer and familial relationships. Mobile health (mHealth) technology has the potential to intervene at various points in the emotion regulation process of adolescent mothers to provide them support for more adaptive emotional and behavioral regulation in the course of their daily life. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine the acceptability, feasibility, use patterns, and mechanisms by which a mobile technology used as an adjunct to in-person, provider-delivered sessions fostered adolescent mothers’ adaptive emotion regulation strategies under real-life conditions. METHODS Participants (N=49) were enrolled in the intervention condition of a larger pilot study of homeless adolescent mothers living in group-based shelters. The mHealth technology, Calm Mom, consisted of a mobile app and a wrist-worn sensorband for the ambulatory measurement and alerting of increased electrodermal activity (EDA), a physiological measurement of stress. We examined logs of mobile app activity and conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with a subsample (N=10) of participants. Qualitative data analysis was guided by the theoretical frames of the intervention and a technology acceptance model and included an analysis of emerging themes and concepts. RESULTS Overall, participants indicated that one or more of the elements of Calm Mom supported their ability to effectively regulate their emotions in the course of their daily life in ways that were consonant with the intervention’s theoretical model. For many adolescent mothers, the app became an integral tool for managing stress. Due to technical challenges, fewer participants received sensorband alerts; however, those who received alerts reported high levels of acceptability as the technology helped them to identify their emotions and supported them in engaging in more adaptive behaviors during real-life stressful situations with their children, peers, and family members. CONCLUSIONS Calm Mom is a promising technology for providing theoretically driven behavioral intervention strategies during real-life stressful moments among a highly vulnerable population. Future research efforts will involve addressing technology challenges and refining tailoring algorithms for implementation in larger-scale studies.

Regulating Emotion Systems in Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-446
Author(s):  
Hayley Medland ◽  
Kalee De France ◽  
Tom Hollenstein ◽  
David Mussoff ◽  
Peter Koval
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Regulation Of Emotion ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Abstract. Researchers are increasingly using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to investigate how people regulate their emotions from moment-to-moment in daily life. However, existing self-report measures of emotion regulation have been designed and validated to assess habitual/trait use of emotion regulation strategies and may therefore not be suited to assessing momentary emotion regulation. The present study aimed to develop a brief, yet reliable, EMA measure of emotion regulation in daily life by adapting the Regulation of Emotion Systems Survey (RESS; DeFrance & Hollenstein, 2017 ), a recently developed global self-report questionnaire assessing habitual use of six emotion regulation strategies. We created an EMA version of the RESS by selecting 12 items from the original scale and adapting them for EMA. We investigated the psychometric properties of the new RESS-EMA scale by administering it eight times daily for 7 days via smartphones to a sample of undergraduates ( n = 112). Results of multilevel modeling analyses supported the within- and between-person reliability and validity of the RESS-EMA scale and suggest that it is a viable way to comprehensively assess momentary emotion regulation strategy use in daily life.

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