The moderating impact of emotional intelligence on free cortisol responses to stress

Mikolajczak, Moïra; Roy, Emmanuel; Luminet, Olivier; Fillée, Catherine; Timary, Philippe de

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.07.009

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“…First, it is possible that the disruption of the HPA axis is caused by psychological factors. Indeed, neuroticism, stress, and unhappiness are all associated with difficulties in regulating emotions which in turn is linked to exaggerated and/or chronic cortisol secretion in response to stressors (Mikolajczak et al, 2007). Knowing that prolonged exposure to glucocorticoids damages the hippocampus (see Bremner, 1999 for a review) and that hippocampus seem to have a pivotal position in the regulation of the CAR (see Fries et al, 2009), it is possible that neuroticism, stress, and unhappiness lead to a less flexible CAR.…”

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Cortisol awakening response (CAR)’s flexibility leads to larger and more consistent associations with psychological factors than CAR magnitude

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Quoidbach

Vanootighem

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Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Cortisol awakening response (CAR)’s flexibility leads to larger and more consistent associations with psychological factors than CAR magnitude

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“…Trait EI is negatively related to psychopathology (e.g., Malterer, Glass, & Newman, 2008). Trait EI was also a significant moderator of responses to stress (e.g., Mikolajczak & Luminet, 2008;Mikolajczak, Roy, Luminet, Fillée, & de Timary, 2007).…”

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Increasing emotional intelligence: (How) is it possible?

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Mikolajczak

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Personality and Individual Differences

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a b s t r a c tThe construct of emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the individual differences in the perception, processing, regulation, and utilization of emotional information. As these differences have been shown to have a significant impact on important life outcomes (e.g., mental and physical health, work performance and social relationships), this study investigated, using a controlled experimental design, whether it is possible to increase EI. Participants of the experimental group received a brief empirically-derived EI training (four group training sessions of two hours and a half) while control participants continued to live normally. Results showed a significant increase in emotion identification and emotion management abilities in the training group. Follow-up measures after 6 months revealed that these changes were persistent. No significant change was observed in the control group. These findings suggest that EI can be improved and open new treatment avenues.

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“…This is especially true as there is a stringent parallel between the EI asymmetries. Higher trait EI scores have indeed been associated with more positive and less negative state affectivity (Mikolajczak, Nelis, Hansenne, & Quoidbach, 2008;, increased subjective resistance to stress or negative conditions (e.g., Ciarrochi, Deane, & Anderson, 2002;Mikolajczak & Luminet, 2008), and lower cortisol secretion amidst stress (Mikolajczak, Roy, Luminet, Fillée, & de Timary, 2007). Higher trait EI scores have also been associated with a lower risk for mental disorders such as depression and anxiety (for a meta-analysis, see Schutte, Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Bhullar, & Rooke, 2007).…”

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Association between frontal EEG asymmetries and emotional intelligence among adults

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Bodarwé²,

Laloyaux

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a b s t r a c tThis study aimed at investigating the brain correlates of trait emotional intelligence. Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) is a constellation of emotion-related traits, capturing the extent to which people experience, attend to, identify, understand, regulate, and utilize their emotions and those of others. As previous studies have provided converging evidence that frontal asymmetries were one of the determinants of emotion dispositions and behaviors, and as observations on individuals with a high level of emotional intelligence parallel those on people with a left-sided frontal cortical asymmetry in nearly every respect, we hypothesized that the level of emotional intelligence might be associated with differential frontal activation. Results supported the hypothesis: the pattern of resting electroencephalographic (EEG) activation recorded in the frontal areas was significantly associated with emotional intelligence. Individuals with higher trait EI evidence greater resting left frontal activation.

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The moderating impact of emotional intelligence on free cortisol responses to stress

Cited by 222 publications

References 41 publications

Cortisol awakening response (CAR)’s flexibility leads to larger and more consistent associations with psychological factors than CAR magnitude

Cortisol awakening response (CAR)’s flexibility leads to larger and more consistent associations with psychological factors than CAR magnitude

Increasing emotional intelligence: (How) is it possible?

Association between frontal EEG asymmetries and emotional intelligence among adults

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