The Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Personality. Is Trait EI Really Anchored Within the Big Five, Big Two and Big One Frameworks?

Frontiers in Psychology

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Alberto Alegre¹  Núria Pérez-Escoda²  Elia López-Cassá² 

[1] Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, East Stroudsburg University, United States;Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education, University of Barcelona

关键词: personality;    five factor model;    big 5;    big 2;    stability;    plasticity;    general factor of personality;    trait emotional intelligence;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00866

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Pérez-González and Sánchez-Ruiz (2014) published a study in which they found that trait emotional intelligence can be considered a broad personality trait integrated into the higher levels of a multi-level personality hierarchy. They also came to the conclusion that this construct can be considered a proxy for the general factor of personality. The purpose of this study is to try to replicate their study. We follow the same methodology these authors used but with a new sample, and a different definition of trait emotional intelligence and therefore a different measurement tool. Our results show convergent validity between trait emotional intelligence and personality, but not discriminant validity, suggesting than trait emotional intelligence is not integrated in the higher level of the personality hierarchies, but it is another way to measure the same big five personality traits that traditionally compose the construct of personality. We also found that trait emotional intelligence highly correlated with the general personality factor, but additionally we found an extremely high negative correlation between those two constructs and neuroticism. This finding suggest that they may represent above all just the absence of neuroticism in a person.

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