Relating Rational and Experiential Thinking Styles With Trait Emotional Intelligence in Broader Personality Space
Abstract
The usual distinction between rational and intuitive thinking styles is still a subject of scientific debate, as there is no consensus about their nature, mutual relations and relations to other personality constructs. Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) proposes rational and experiential thinking styles as original personality constructs not fully explainable by five-factor personality models. Following CEST, we aimed to examine: 1. The uniqueness of rational and experiential dimensions by relating them to other personality constructs: trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and HEXACO; 2. Thinking style profiles defined through combined rational and experiential dimensions, and the possible role of TEI in understanding them. A total of 270 undergraduate students (82% females) completed the TEIQue-SF, REI-40, and HEXACO-PI-R. Our results showed that constructs from all three paradigms were low to moderately correlated to each other. TEI had incremental validity in explaining both rat...ional and experiential dimensions, but large amounts of their variances remained unexplained by both TEI and HEXACO. We revealed four thinking style profiles defined through combined rational and experiential dimensions. TEI was the highest when both dimensions were high and the lowest when both were low, which could be related to processes of understanding and managing emotional functioning - proposed as an essential part of TEI, while within CEST they are seen as the way in which rationality influences experientiality. This finding might be of specific significance for understanding irrationality as not exclusively related to high intuition, but to low rationality as well.
Keywords:
trait emotional intelligence (TEI) / thinking styles / rational experiential inventory (REI-40) / HEXACO / cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST)Source:
Europes Journal of Psychology, 2019, 15, 1, 140-158Publisher:
- Psychopen, Trier
Funding / projects:
- Identification, measurement and development of the cognitive and emotional competences important for a Europe-oriented society (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-179018)
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1692
ISSN: 1841-0413
PubMed: 30915178
WoS: 000460019900010
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85063029157
Institution/Community
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Jokić, Biljana AU - Purić, Danka PY - 2019 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2866 AB - The usual distinction between rational and intuitive thinking styles is still a subject of scientific debate, as there is no consensus about their nature, mutual relations and relations to other personality constructs. Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) proposes rational and experiential thinking styles as original personality constructs not fully explainable by five-factor personality models. Following CEST, we aimed to examine: 1. The uniqueness of rational and experiential dimensions by relating them to other personality constructs: trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and HEXACO; 2. Thinking style profiles defined through combined rational and experiential dimensions, and the possible role of TEI in understanding them. A total of 270 undergraduate students (82% females) completed the TEIQue-SF, REI-40, and HEXACO-PI-R. Our results showed that constructs from all three paradigms were low to moderately correlated to each other. TEI had incremental validity in explaining both rational and experiential dimensions, but large amounts of their variances remained unexplained by both TEI and HEXACO. We revealed four thinking style profiles defined through combined rational and experiential dimensions. TEI was the highest when both dimensions were high and the lowest when both were low, which could be related to processes of understanding and managing emotional functioning - proposed as an essential part of TEI, while within CEST they are seen as the way in which rationality influences experientiality. This finding might be of specific significance for understanding irrationality as not exclusively related to high intuition, but to low rationality as well. PB - Psychopen, Trier T2 - Europes Journal of Psychology T1 - Relating Rational and Experiential Thinking Styles With Trait Emotional Intelligence in Broader Personality Space EP - 158 IS - 1 SP - 140 VL - 15 DO - 10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1692 ER -
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Jokić, B.,& Purić, D.. (2019). Relating Rational and Experiential Thinking Styles With Trait Emotional Intelligence in Broader Personality Space. in Europes Journal of Psychology Psychopen, Trier., 15(1), 140-158. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1692
Jokić B, Purić D. Relating Rational and Experiential Thinking Styles With Trait Emotional Intelligence in Broader Personality Space. in Europes Journal of Psychology. 2019;15(1):140-158. doi:10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1692 .
Jokić, Biljana, Purić, Danka, "Relating Rational and Experiential Thinking Styles With Trait Emotional Intelligence in Broader Personality Space" in Europes Journal of Psychology, 15, no. 1 (2019):140-158, https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1692 . .