Experiential and Strategic Emotional Intelligence Are Implicated When Inhibiting Affective and Non-Affective Distractors: Findings from Three Emotional Flanker N-Back Tasks

Autor/inn/en	Lim, Ming D.; Birney, Damian P.
Titel	Experiential and Strategic Emotional Intelligence Are Implicated When Inhibiting Affective and Non-Affective Distractors: Findings from Three Emotional Flanker N-Back Tasks
Quelle	In: Journal of Intelligence, 9 (2021), Artikel 12 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lim, Ming D.)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2079-3200
Schlagwörter	Emotional Intelligence; Affective Behavior; Barriers; Inhibition; Cognitive Processes; Memory; Correlation; Reaction Time; Short Term Memory; Visual Stimuli; Accuracy; Interference (Learning); Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Emotional Response; Australia; Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionale Intelligenz; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Hemmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Gedächtnis; Korrelation; Reaktionsvermögen; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Ausland; Emotionales Verhalten; Australien
Abstract	Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a set of competencies to process, understand, and reason with affective information. Recent studies suggest ability measures of experiential and strategic EI differentially predict performance on non-emotional and emotionally laden tasks. To explore cognitive processes underlying these abilities further, we varied the affective context of a traditional letter-based "n"-back working-memory task. In study 1, participants completed 0-, 2-, and 3-back tasks with flanking distractors that were either emotional (fearful or happy faces) or non-emotional (shapes or letters stimuli). Strategic EI, but not experiential EI, significantly influenced participants' accuracy across all n-back levels, irrespective of flanker type. In Study 2, participants completed 1-, 2-, and 3-back levels. Experiential EI was positively associated with response times for emotional flankers at the 1-back level but not other levels or flanker types, suggesting those higher in experiential EI reacted slower on low-load trials with affective context. In Study 3, flankers were asynchronously presented either 300 ms or 1000 ms before probes. Results mirrored Study 1 for accuracy rates and Study 2 for response times. Our findings (a) provide experimental evidence for the distinctness of experiential and strategic EI and (b) suggest that each are related to different aspects of cognitive processes underlying working memory. (As Provided).
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