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Effects of Ability Emotional Intelligence and Sadness on Affective Forecasts about Physical

Hayes, Sarah Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556308763694415

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2019, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Emotional intelligence is predictive of many types of well-being including social, mental health, and academic well-being (Brackett et al., 2011). However, less is known about how emotional intelligence influences physical health. The current project aims to provide information about how emotional intelligence and incidental emotions can influence physical health. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that contributes to 1) the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, 2) the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and 3) the use of feelings to motivate, plan, and achieve goals in one’s life (Salovey & Mayor, 1990). One factor that can affect health behavior engagement is a person’s ability to know what emotions they will feel after they engage in an activity (Halpern & Arnold, 2008). This prediction of how one will feel in the future is known as an affective forecast (Wilson & Gilbert, 2005). The current study tested whether feeling the incidental emotion sadness changed the way participants predicted they would feel after exercising at a vigorous and moderate intensity as a function of emotional intelligence. To test this, ability emotional intelligence was measured and participants were randomly assigned to a mood induction of either sadness or neutral mood. It was hypothesized that those who were higher in emotional intelligence would make more positive predictions about how engaging in physical activity would make them feel than people lower in emotional intelligence, even when they were made to feel sad. Contrary to hypotheses, participants with higher ability emotional intelligence did not make more positive affective forecasts about physical activity after they were made to feel sad than participants with lower emotional intelligence. Further, there were no main effects of the emotion induction or ability emotional intelligence on affective forecasting. Because there is a lack of empirical evidence and inconsistent results across research studies, including the present study, more research is needed to confirm that ability emotional intelligence is not actually associated with physical activity outcomes. If affective forecasts about physical activity and ability emotional intelligence are not associated, this has implications for how research should proceed, and for interventionists to understand situations in which emotional intelligence does not offer any protective element. This way, workplaces using ability emotional intelligence training can be realistic about what they would like to accomplish with the intervention.
Jennifer Taber (Advisor)
Updegraff John (Committee Member)
Coifman Karin (Committee Member)
Gere Judith (Committee Member)
48 p.
Psychology
Emotional Intelligence; Affective Forecasts

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  • Hayes, S. A. (2019). Effects of Ability Emotional Intelligence and Sadness on Affective Forecasts about Physical [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556308763694415

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hayes, Sarah. Effects of Ability Emotional Intelligence and Sadness on Affective Forecasts about Physical. 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556308763694415.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hayes, Sarah. "Effects of Ability Emotional Intelligence and Sadness on Affective Forecasts about Physical." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556308763694415

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