Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction
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Participants
The sample comprised 107 participants (47 males and 59 females, 1 unreported) ranging in age from 16 to 64 years with a mean age of 35.44 years (SD=12.22). The participants were recruited from the general community via advertisements in local newspapers.
The 20 item Toronto TAS-20 Bagby et al., 1994
The TAS-20 is a 20 item self-report measure comprising a five point rating scale (1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree) and three sub-scales based on factor analysis by Bagby et al. (1994); Difficulty Identifying Feelings; Difficulty
Results
The means, standard deviations and internal consistency reliabilities (coefficient alpha) for all measured variables and sub-tests are presented in Table 1.
In general, the means, standard deviations and reliabilities of each of the measures were similar to those reported previously. The Pearson correlations between the measures are shown in Table 2.
As shown in Table 2 both the personality variables and EI abilities measured, were found to correlate with life satisfaction. The SWLS correlated
Discussion
The findings of the present study provide further support for the notion that EI accounts for individual differences in life satisfaction. Consistent with previous research, positive affect was found to be the strongest predictor of life satisfaction accounting for the majority of the variance in SWLS scores. However, one component of EI, Clarity, was found to add a statistically significant increase (around 5.5%) in the prediction of life satisfaction over and above both positive and negative
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