Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Styles: Moderating Role of Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience

Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Styles

Abstract

The current study investigated the moderating role of Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience personality traits on EI and Cognitive Styles. Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003), Self-Report Measure of Emotional Intelligence (SRMEI; Khan & Kamal, 2008), and Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (OSIVQ; Blazhenkova & Kozhevnikov, 2009) were administered to collect data from 3500 students. Emotional Stability moderates the relationship of EI and Cognitive Styles. On the other side openness to experience negatively moderates the relationship of object cognitive style with emotional self-regulation; and positively moderates the relationship of verbal cognitive style with emotional self-awareness and of spatial cognitive style with Interpersonal skills significantly.