Relația stresului ocupațional cu inteligența emoționalã. O investigație centratã pe douã instrumente de evaluare a inteligenței emoționale

Based on 2 samples of employees in the financial and banking sector, the authors examine the convergenceof two measures of Emotional Intelligence, namely the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test(MSCEIT), and the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) which are the products of different approaches to thefocal concept. Furthermore, the authors examine the relationship of both these measures with occupational stress,with specific stressfull events and with coping mechanisms. The study finds only a low convergence of the twomeasures, as well as average correlations with occupational stress and low correlations with individual copingstrategies. Emotional Intelligence measured as an ability has a higher affinity with these processes than EmotionalIntelligence measured as personality