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Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Creativity
Author(s) -
Ivcevic Zorana,
Brackett Marc A.,
Mayer John D.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00437.x
Subject(s) - creativity , psychology , emotional intelligence , construct (python library) , uncorrelated , confirmatory factor analysis , cognition , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , structural equation modeling , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
Three studies examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional creativity (EC) and whether each construct was predictive of creative behavior. It was hypothesized that the relationship between EI and EC corresponds to the relationship between cognitive intelligence and creative ability. Therefore, EI and EC were expected to be two distinct sets of abilities. Intercorrelations and confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesis. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that EC, but not EI, would correlate with behavioral creativity. Self‐report measures of EC significantly correlated with laboratory and self‐reported creativity measures in both studies, while ability measures of EC only correlated with self‐reported artistic activity. EI was uncorrelated with creative behavior.