Trait Emotional Intelligence and Happiness

By Adrian Furnham, K. V. Petrides. 2003

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Participants completed measures of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), happiness, personality, and cognitive ability. Neuroticism was negatively related to happiness, whereas Extraversion and Openness to Experience were positively related to it. Cognitive ability was not related either to happiness or to trait EI. A three-step hierarchical regression showed that trait EI explained over 50% of the total variance in happiness. The positive relationship between trait EI and happiness persisted in the presence of the Big Five. In contrast, the Big Five did not account for a significant amount of happiness variance when trait EI was partialled out.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Supporting the Development of Emotional Intelligence Competencies to Ease the Transition from Primary to High School (2007, methodology): “Research, using this definition of EI, suggests it to be an important predictor in determining life and school success: for example, adolescents with high trait EI are happier than those with low trait EI (Furnham & Petrides, 2003 ) and are less likely to be depressed, hopeless or suicidal (Ciarroc”
Differences in How Trait Emotional Intelligence Predicts Life Satisfaction: The Role of Affect Balance Versus Social Support in India and Germany (2013, background): “Indeed, previous research has shown that adaptive emotional functioning is associated with the experience of pleasant emotions (Furnham and Petrides 2003; Schutte et al. 2002).”
Social Anxiety, Emotional Intelligence, and Interpersonal Adjustment (2006, background): “Not surprisingly, research has found links between levels of EI and such indices of interpersonal functioning as peer ratings of relationship and emotional success (Mehrabian, 2000), and self-reported empathy, relationship quality, secure attachment, perceived well-being, and, particularly, general ”
Emotional intelligence and personality traits as predictors of psychological well-being in Spanish undergraduates (2010, result): “These results concur with those of Furnham and Petrides (2003) who found that neuroticism, in a negative sense, and extraversion and openness, in a positive sense, were positively related to happiness.”
Emotional intelligence and its relation with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: A prospective study. (2011, background): “It has been widely documented that EI evaluated by self-report measures is associated with happiness (Furnham & Petrides, 2003).”
Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence, and Multiple Happiness (2007, methodology): “Furnham and Petrides (2003) found that EI was a positive predictor of happiness, explaining over 50% of its total variance.”
The happy personality: Mediational role of trait emotional intelligence (2007, background): “Accordingly, a recent study ( Furnham & Petrides, 2003 ) found trait EI predicted happiness over and above the Big Five personality dimensions.”
The contribution of emotional and spiritual intelligences to effective business leadership (2009, background): “For example, Furnham and Petrides (2003) found that trait-EI made a large contribution to happiness as it explained over 50% of the variance.”
Emotional Intelligence: Review of Research and Educational Implications (2007, background): “Researchers adopting the trait approach to the study of EI have found that adolescents with high trait EI are happier than those with low trait EI (Furnham and Petrides, 2003), cope better with transition to high school (Qualter, Whiteley, Hutchinson and Pope, in press), and are less likely to have…”
Measuring Trait Emotional Intelligence (2005, methodology): “…2003) Over the past six years, the various forms and translations of the TEIQue are being developed, adapted, and validated within the context of an academic research program, 1 focusing primarily on trait EI (e.g., Furnham & Petrides, 2003; Pérez, 2003; Petrides, Frederickson, & Furnham, 2004).”
Trait emotional intelligence and decision-related emotions (2007, unknown): “Specifically with respect to the incremental validity of the TEIQue-SF, Furnham and Petrides (2003) found that, while it could account for happiness variance over and above the NEO-FFI, the latter (as a block of variables) did not have a statistically significant effect in the presence of the…”