On emotionally intelligent time travel: individual differences in affective forecasting ability.
In two studies, the authors examined whether people who are high in emotional intelligence (EI) make more accurate forecasts about their own affective responses to future events. All participants completed a performance measure of EI (the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) as well as a self-report measure of EI. Affective forecasting ability was assessed using a longitudinal design in which participants were asked to predict how they would feel and report their actual feelings following three events in three different domains: politics and academics (Study 1) and sports (Study 2). Across these events, individual differences in forecasting ability were predicted by participants' scores on the performance measure, but not the self-report measure, of EI; high-EI individuals exhibited greater affective forecasting accuracy. Emotion Management, a subcomponent of EI, emerged as the strongest predictor of forecasting ability.
Dunn
Elizabeth W
EW
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. edunn@psych.ubc.ca
Brackett
Marc A
MA
Ashton-James
Claire
C
Schneiderman
Elyse
E
Salovey
Peter
P
D000339:Affect; D001076:Aptitude; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013998:Time Perception