Transcript Emotional Intelligence and Databases

Emotional Intelligence and
Databases
Majella Barkley, QUB
Overview
• Background.
• What is Emotional Intelligence/how is it
assessed?
• Problems with EI.
• EI and databases.
• Databases as a tool for EI research.
• EI and Labelling databases.
• Present work.
Background to EI
• Arose from a feeling that insufficient
attention was being paid to individual
differences in emotion.
• A belief that the abilities to recognise and
regulate emotion have important
implications for everyday life.
• An intuitively appealing idea.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
• EI aims to account for individual differences in
emotion.
• Initially proposed as an intelligence by (Salovey
and Mayer, 1990).
• Now developed into 2 separate constructs that
fall under the heading of Emotional Intelligence,
(Petrides and Furnham, 2001).
What is EI?
May now be viewed either as…….
…..“Ability EI” an intelligence (a set of cognitive
abilities for emotion), refers to thinking skills.
Or
…..“Trait EI” as a personality trait (an emotional
behavioural style).
How is EI assessed?
• Type of EI examined determines measurements
used.
• Trait EI - Self-report measures
EQ-i, (Bar-On, 1997). TEIQue, (Petrides and
Furnham, 2003).
• Ability EI - Performance measures
MSCEIT, (Mayer, Salovey and Caruso, 2002).
Problems with EI
Ability EI
• Major obstacle for Ability EI research is making
the subjective experience of emotion more
objective.
Trait EI
• Issues of discriminant and incremental validity is Trait EI independent from other well
established personality constructs such as
neuroticism?
EI and Databases
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Theoretically those with high EI scores should
be better at identifying and labelling emotion
than low EI individuals.
EI has yet to be examined in work on emotion
databases.
The relationship between EI and databases is a
two way process:
- Emotion databases as tools in EI research.
- EI differences used to distinguish between
effective and not so effective labellers.
Databases as a Research
Tool for EI
• EI research faces a serious psychometric
challenge – how to objectify emotion.
• EI ability tests that attempt to objectively
measure the subjective experience of emotion
are required.
• This is particularly important for aspects of ability
EI concerned with internal emotional states that
are only available to the individual, e.g.
identifying emotion.
• At present the sub-tests from the MSCEIT subscale, “Identifying Emotion” use artificial items
such as photographs of 6 basic facial
expressions.
EI and Labelling Databases
• A valid, reliable database should take into
account individual differences in EI,
particularly when labelling emotional
content of stimuli.
• But first must identify ways in which EI
differences impact on databases.
Current Work
• FEELTRACE is a computer program that allows
observers to track the perceived emotional content of a
stimulus over time. It is used as one means of labelling
audio-visual stimuli.
• Current aim is to explore any possible relationships
between EI scores and responses on FEELTRACE
tasks.
• Issues to be explored are:
- Differences in the ability to anticipate perceived
emotion in audio-visual clips.
- Differences in time taken to identify transitions in
emotion.
To Recap...
• EI accounts for individual differences in
emotion.
• EI is both an intelligence and a personality
trait.
• There are problems but doesn’t stop use
of EI within HUMAINE.
• Need to research influence of EI on
emotion databases.