Emotional intelligence and mental disorder

Hertel, Janine; Schütz, Astrid; Lammers, Claas-Hinrich

doi:10.1002/jclp.20597

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“…This result coincides with others EI studies in the field of psychopathology [17][18][19] and with previous empirical research that suggests that individuals with GAD show more heightened intensity of emotions, expressing negative, but not positive, moods more often, report more frequently negative reaction to self-emotions, and more difficulty in managing them [21]. Despite our preliminary evidence on the predictive value of the deficits in EI in relation to GAD, certain limitations need to be addressed in further research.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Lizeretti

Extremera

2011

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is the anxiety disorder with the highest prevalence rate in mental health centers. Empirical researches concerning its diagnosis and treatment have not yet explored the potential implications of deficits in emotional intelligence (EI) as a vulnerability factor in its development. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between EI and clinical symptoms in a group of psychiatric patients with GAD compared to the control group. Seventy outpatients (82.9% female) with a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of GAD and 70 control individuals (72.9% female) completed self-report instruments assessing EI and clinical symptoms in a cross-sectional study. Significant correlations were observed between EI dimensions such as clarity (r = .327) and repair (r = .405) and symptoms of anxiety. Also, the dimensions of attention and repair allowed a clear discrimination between clinical patients and control group. The results of the present study showed that deficits in EI abilities were a vulnerability factor in the development of GAD.

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confidence: 91%

“…Hertel and colleagues [19] found that it is possible to discriminate between the different clinical groups based on their levels of EI, specifically emotional understanding. These results also showed significant differences in EI between patients with different mental disorders.…”

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Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Lizeretti

Extremera

2011

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“…Specifically, the borderline patients were reduced in their ability to understand emotional information and to regulate emotions, but they performed as well as the nonclinical controls in perceiving emotions and using emotions to facilitate thought. In contrast to Beblo et al (2010), Hertel et al (2009) did not control for general intelligence and therefore the reduced emotional intelligence performance of the BPD patients may be attributable to group differences in cognitive ability. Variation in borderline symptom severity may also differentially affect emotional intelligence ability in these two studies, but there is insufficient data to evaluate this claim.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Assays of emotional intelligence suggested enhanced, reduced, or conserved abilities in borderline subjects (Beblo et al, 2010;Hertel et al, 2009;Park et al, 1992). This variation in reported emotional intelligence may vary, in part, as a function of borderline symptom severity or overall cognitive ability.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

The Borderline Empathy Paradox: Evidence and Conceptual Models for Empathic Enhancements in Borderline Personality Disorder

Dinsdale¹,

Crespi²

2013

Journal of Personality Disorders

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Empirical evidence and therapeutic interactions have suggested that individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may demonstrate enhancements in aspects of social-emotional cognition. To assess the empirical evidence for this phenomenon, and to comprehensively evaluate alternative hypotheses for its possible role in BPD etiology and symptoms, the authors systematically searched the literature for investigations of empathy in BPD and reviewed 28 studies assessing a range of empathic abilities. Considered together, these data demonstrated comparable levels of evidence for enhanced, preserved, and reduced empathic skills in individuals with BPD. Evidence for empathic enhancements is thus substantial but inconsistent across studies, being found mainly under more socially interactive experimental paradigms. Based on the results of the review and previous explanations for BPD symptoms, the authors propose a new model for explaining the borderline paradox: that a combination of increased attention to social stimuli and dysfunctional social information processing may account in part for the specific empathic enhancements and reduced overall social functioning in BPD.Clinical anecdotes and recent empirical evidence have suggested that individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may demonstrate enhanced empathy in spite of impaired interpersonal functioning, a paradox referred to as "borderline empathy" (Franzen et al., 2011;Krohn, 1974). Drawing from therapeutic interactions with borderline patients, the psychoanalyst Alan Krohn (1974) first identified the paradoxical nature of the diagnosis, describing how some individuals with BPD appear to possess an uncanny sensitivity to other people's subconscious mental content and This article was accepted under the editorship of Paul S. Links.From Simon Fraser University.Address correspondence to Bernard J. Crespi, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; E-mail: crespi@sfu.caWe are grateful to Felix Breden, Alex Chapman, three anonymous reviewers, and members of the Simon Fraser University Fab-Lab and the University of California-Santa Barbara Center for Evolutionary Psychology for helpful comments and discussion, and we thank NSERC for financial support.

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“…Another limitation relates to how EI levels, as measured by TMMS, reflect actual individual traits. The validity of EI measured by self-report might be undermined by self-enhancement, faking and limited self-insight [49] . As mentioned previously, there is also an ability model of EI.…”

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The Effects of Serotonin Transporter Promoter and Monoamine Oxidase A Gene Polymorphisms on Trait Emotional Intelligence

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influences of major serotonin-related genetic variants of the serotonin transporter-linked promoter region (5-HTTLPR), tryptophan hydroxylase 1 gene (TPH1) and monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA-EcoRV) on trait emotional intelligence (EI). Methods: The Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS) measuring trait EI and genotyping were performed in 336 healthy Korean college students (204 males, 132 females). Results: Among the male participants, those with the T genotype of MAOA (lower MAOA activity) had significantly lower subscale scores on the TMMS than those with the C genotype (higher MAOA activity) did. Additionally, male participants with the s/s genotype of the 5-HTTLPR gene had significantly lower attention subscale scores and total TMMS scores than those with the non-s/s (l/l + l/s) genotypes did. Among the female participants, there were no associations between any of the 5-HTTLPR, TPH1 or MAOA-EcoRV polymorphisms and any of the TMMS scores. Conclusion: These findings suggest a potential genetic basis of EI with regard to attention to one’s own feelings involving the serotonin system in males.

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Emotional intelligence and mental disorder

Cited by 107 publications

References 49 publications

Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

The Borderline Empathy Paradox: Evidence and Conceptual Models for Empathic Enhancements in Borderline Personality Disorder

The Effects of Serotonin Transporter Promoter and Monoamine Oxidase A Gene Polymorphisms on Trait Emotional Intelligence

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