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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dunn, Elizabeth W.
• Brackett, Marc A.
• Ashton-James, Claire
• Schneiderman, Elyse
• Salovey, Peter

Titel

On Emotionally Intelligent Time Travel: Individual Differences in Affective Forecasting Ability

Ist Teil von

• Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2007-01, Vol.33 (1), p.85-93

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In two studies, the authors examined whether people who are high in emotional intelligence (EI) make more accurate forecasts about their own affective responses to future events. All participants completed a performance measure of EI (the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) as well as a self-report measure of EI. Affective forecasting ability was assessed using a longitudinal design in which participants were asked to predict how they would feel and report their actual feelings following three events in three different domains: politics and academics (Study 1) and sports (Study 2). Across these events, individual differences in forecasting ability were predicted by participants' scores on the performance measure, but not the self-report measure, of EI; high-EI individuals exhibited greater affective forecasting accuracy. Emotion Management, a subcomponent of EI, emerged as the strongest predictor of forecasting ability.