Relationship between Ei and health

 

TOPIC 3:

 

Part I. Take-away topic questions

 

- What is supportive between Emotional Intelligence and psychosomatic health?

 

First of all, Speaking about psychosomatic health is talking about estrés, depression, and instead.

On the one hand, studies show that we are a positive link between stress and emotions. But a negative one with other structures psychosomatic; like Asperger's. On the other hand, we take EI as a negative predictor in some people; teenagers and adult people.

 

-What is supportive evidence for/against the relationship between Ability or trait EI and the following suggest: psychosomatic, physical health, physical and psychical health?

 

From my evidence and studies evidence, Firstly, we have a strong relationship with Ability EI and Aptitude cognition. Ability perspective is less robust and more limited than trait perspective. Secondly, trait referred better to Actitud if we speaking about a trait. We have in this case a more strong relation and less limited.

Finally, I need to add both of them are essential to a correct measure of EI, and Aptitud and Actitud are a solution!

 

-What is supportive between EI and Psychical health?

 

EI may impact physical health indirectly, a trough is associations with habitual Coping behaviours, that carry benefits or/and risks of people. Nowadays, people are speaking about Healthy habits all around multiple places, like eating, exercising, sleeping, reading a good book, etc. Less stress and life more slow are good solutions.

 

-What is supportive between EI and mental health?

In this case, EI is a positive predictor in this topic. People said that self-awareness is a good ability for identification own-self, but in social space and with experiencing everything by one-self. this can be a more efficient and strong opportunity for learning and well-being.

 

 

 

What can you conclude from the evidence provided by Di Fabio & Kenny (2016) and Petrides et al. (2007) concerning the relationship between trait EI and health?

It would seem that personal or eudaimonic well-being is broadly associated with health, and that trait EI measures correlate with well-being and, in general, with self-report measures, more robustly than ability-based measures.

Compared to mental and subjective health, the relationships of trait EI with objective indicators of health status remain underresearched, but trait EI seems to predict incremental variance in healthcare use over and above well-established predictors of health.

 

How would you summarize the similar findings of Saklofske et al.’s (2007), Petrides et al.’s (2007), and Mikolajczak et al.’s (2008) concerning the relationship between trait EI and coping?

Coping is the process by which people try to manage stress. Trait EI was positively associated with the two adaptive coping styles (rational and detached) and negatively associated with rumination (passively and repetitively focusing on one’s symptoms of distress and the circumstances surrounding these symptoms) and the two maladaptive styles (emotional and avoidant).

The biological correlate of this might be lower hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity in stressful situations, which higher trait EI scores are associated with. 

 

How is alexithymia defined and why can it  be theoretically linked with EI?

Alexithymia is defined as a deficit in the ability to identify, describe, and attend to one’s feelings and emotions. It can be theoretically linked with EI because it can be understood as low emotional self-efficacy.

 

What is supportive evidence for/against the relationships between ability EI and physical, mental and psychosomatic health?

Since ability-based measures of EI are theoretically and psychometrically less robust than trait measures, findings relating ability-based EI to physical and mental health are more limited and reveal inconsistencies.

There is evidence that self-report measures of EI are more robust than ability-based EI in explaining well-being and other psychological constructs assessed through self-report.

 

What is supportive evidence for/against the relationships between trait EI and physical, mental and psychosomatic health?

Trait EI has been confirmed as a strong positive predictor of well-being and mental health by several studies, such as Martins, Ramalho, and Morin’s (2010) meta-analysis, and Petrides, Pérez-González & Furnham (2007). At the same time, trait EI has been established as a strong negative predictor of psychopathology in both teenagers and adults (Mikolajczak, Petrides, & Hurry, 2009; (Petrides, Hudry, Michalaria, Swami, & Sevdalis, 2011). However, a study by Arora et al. (2011) reported that medical trainees with high trait EI experienced more stress when undergoing an unfamiliar surgical procedure, reiterating that the effects of the construct are often moderated by the situational context.

Compared to mental and subjective health, the relationships of trait EI with objective indicators of health status remain underresearched, but according to Mikolajczak et al. (2015) trait EI predicts incremental variance in healthcare use over and above well-established predictors of health.

Most of this research, however, is correlational, which means that causality cannot be concluded. Further research is needed to determine how trait EI can best be enhanced and whether that can lead to gains in well-being. Longitudinal research is also needed to systematically test the causal mechanisms that promote well-being as a function of EI intervention.

Part II. Critical reading questions