RT journal article
T1 The Role of Strategic Emotional Intelligence in Predicting Adolescents' Academic Achievement: Possible Interplays with Verbal Intelligence and Personality
A1 Jolić Marjanović, Zorana
A1 Altaras Dimitrijević, Ana
A1 Protić, Sonja
A1 Mestre Navas, José Miguel
A2 Psicología
K1 strategic emotional intelligence
K1 emotion understanding
K1 emotion management
K1 verbal intelligence
K1 Big Five
K1 academic achievement
K1 adolescents
AB As recent meta-analyses confirmed that emotional intelligence (EI), particularly strategic EI, adjoins intelligence and personality in predicting academic achievement, we explored possible arrangements in which these predictors affect the given outcome in adolescents. Three models, with versions including either overall strategic EI or its branches, were considered: (a) a mediation model, whereby strategic EI partially mediates the effects of verbal intelligence (VI) and personality on achievement; the branch-level version assumed that emotion understanding affects achievement in a cascade via emotion management; (b) a direct effects model, with strategic EI/branches placed alongside VI and personality as another independent predictor of achievement; and (c) a moderation model, whereby personality moderates the effects of VI and strategic EI/branches on achievement. We tested these models in a sample of 227 students (M = 16.50 years) and found that both the mediation and the direct effects model with overall strategic EI fit the data; there was no support for a cascade within strategic EI, nor for the assumption that personality merely moderates the effects of abilities on achievement. Principally, strategic EI both mediated the effects of VI and openness, and independently predicted academic achievement, and it did so through emotion understanding directly, "skipping" emotion management.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2021
FD 2021-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26441
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26441
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026