Age and ability-based emotional intelligence: Evidence from the Geneva Emotional Competence Test
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F25%3A00637464" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/25:00637464 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000376" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000376</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2025.101934" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.intell.2025.101934</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Age and ability-based emotional intelligence: Evidence from the Geneva Emotional Competence Test
Original language description
One criterion for considering emotional intelligence (EI) a true intelligence is the observation of an increase in EI across age. However, findings in this area have been mixed and predominantly based on a single measure, the MSCEIT. This study examined the relationship between age and ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) using the Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECo) in a sample of 456 adults. Results indicated that total EI increases from early adulthood to approximately age 40 (≈ 9 EQ points), after which it plateaus and shows a modest decline in later adulthood. Notably, the emotion regulation subdimension showed no evidence of decline. Overall, these findings support the view that EI may be considered an intelligence, one that may be shaped by gains in crystallized abilities, but also potentially susceptible to later declines in fluid cognitive functioning.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
INTELLIGENCE
ISSN
0160-2896
e-ISSN
1873-7935
Volume of the periodical
111
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7-8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
101934
UT code for WoS article
001525737500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105009415696