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Association between frontal EEG asymmetries and emotional intelligence among adults
Mikolajczak, Moïra; Bodarwé, Kerrin; Laloyaux, Olivier et al.
2010In Personality and Individual Differences, 48 (2), p. 177-181
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Keywords :
Trait emotional intelligence; EEG; Frontal asymmetries; Brain; Neural correlates
Abstract :
[en] This 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.
Research center :
Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Mikolajczak, Moïra
Bodarwé, Kerrin
Laloyaux, Olivier ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Département des sciences cognitives
Hansenne, Michel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Nelis, Delphine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Language :
English
Title :
Association between frontal EEG asymmetries and emotional intelligence among adults
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Personality and Individual Differences
ISSN :
0191-8869
eISSN :
1873-3549
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
48
Issue :
2
Pages :
177-181
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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