Abstract
The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between Dark Tetrad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and sadism) and ability emotional intelligence dimensions – self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, use of emotion and regulation of emotion. The Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Short Dark Triad and Assessment of Sadistic Personality were applied to a sample of 322 participants from the general population (63% women) of Croatia. Results showed that both psychopathy and sadism had negative relations with emotional intelligence. Sadism showed significant effects on self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, and use of emotion dimensions, while psychopathy showed significant effect on regulation of emotion. Machiavellianism negatively correlated to a weaker degree with self-emotion appraisal and others’ emotion appraisal, but it showed no significant effects on emotional intelligence dimensions in regression analysis. Narcissism showed positive effects on EI as a whole, use of emotion and self-emotion appraisal. The results highlighted the importance of the dark traits in the explanation of emotional intelligence and showed that the dark traits are differently associated with emotional intelligence dimensions.
Highlights
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the “ability to reason validly with emotions and with emotion-related information and to use emotions to enhance thought” (Mayer et al, 2016, p. 296)
In the studies which used ability EI model (e.g., Shi & Wang, 2007; Wong & Law, 2002), the results indicated that self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, use of emotion, and EI total score moderately negatively correlated with Big Five Neuroticism, while only others’ emotion appraisal had negative and low correlation with Extraversion
This study aimed to investigate the relations of emotional intelligence dimensions and Dark Tetrad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and sadism)
Summary
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the “ability to reason validly with emotions and with emotion-related information and to use emotions to enhance thought” (Mayer et al, 2016, p. 296). Model of EI of Mayer & Salovey (1997) is known as the cascading model (Joseph, & Newman, 2010), and it includes four dimensions of EI: emotion perception, emotion understanding, emotion facilitation, and emotion regulation Based on this model, Wong & Low (2002) developed a four-factor self-report EI measure (The Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale - WLEIS) composed of four dimensions: a) appraisal and expression of emotion in the self, which reflects the ability to understand and express self-emotions, b) appraisal and recognition of emotion in others, which represents the ability to detect and understand others' emotions, c) regulation of emotion in the self, which encompasses the abilities to regulate self-emotions and successfully recover from emotional distress, and d) use of emotion to facilitate performance, which reflects the ability to use emotions to promote constructive behaviors and better personal performance. In antisocial individuals, emotional regulation may lead to manipulative behavior such as manipulative scenarios or manipulation to others in order to achieve illicit goals (Salovey & Mayer, 1990)
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