Avaliação de aspectos da inteligência emocional nas técnicas de Pfister e Zulliger

Emotional intelligence relates to the ability to adequately perceive and understand emotions and to manage them in an adaptive and constructive manner. Emotion regulation is part of the construct and is traditionally assessed by way of hypothetical stories, which are similar to self-reports. Although developed prior to the proposal of the emotional intelligence construct, projective techniques, which are considered performance instruments, also feature indicators of emotion regulation. The present study’s aim was to discover which variables in Pfi ster’s Color Pyramid Test would be associated with an indicator of cognitive emotion regulation in the Zulliger Inkblot Test. Ninety-eight people participated in the survey, 57.1% of which were women. Linear regression analysis showed that the frequencies of Pure Carpet 1 Endereço para correspondência: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Psicologia e Psicanálise, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal 10011, Londrina, PR, Brasil 86057-970. Fone: (43) 3371-4397. E-mail: fabiano@avalpsi.com.br Os autores agradecem a colaboração das turmas 58, 59 e 60 de Psicologia da Universidade Estadual de Londrina na aplicação dos testes psicológicos. Miguel, F. K., Zuanazzi, A. C., Villemor-Amaral, A. E. 1854 and Bored Carpet (both negative) in the Pfi ster test were predictors of the Zulliger emotion-regulation formula. It is believed that aspects of emotional intelligence can also be found in projective techniques. The association between Pfi ster’s and Zulliger’s variables is discussed as an indicator of psychological health.