Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0
With the growing popularity of online courses, there is an increasing need for scientifically validated online interventions that can improve emotional competencies. We addressed this demand by evaluating an extended version of the Web-Based Emotional Intelligence Training (WEIT 2.0) program. Based...
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| author | Marco Jürgen Held Theresa Fehn Iris Katharina Gauglitz Astrid Schütz |
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| description | With the growing popularity of online courses, there is an increasing need for scientifically validated online interventions that can improve emotional competencies. We addressed this demand by evaluating an extended version of the Web-Based Emotional Intelligence Training (WEIT 2.0) program. Based on the four-branch model of emotional intelligence, WEIT 2.0 focuses on improving participants’ emotion perception and emotion regulation skills. A total of 214 participants were randomly assigned to the training group (<i>n</i> = 91) or a waiting list control group (<i>n</i> = 123) to evaluate short-term (directly after WEIT 2.0) and long-term intervention effects (8 weeks later). Two-way MANOVAs and mixed ANOVAs showed significant treatment effects for self-reported emotion perception of the self, as well as emotion regulation of the self and others, after 8 weeks. No significant treatment effects were found for self-reported emotion perception in others or for performance-based emotion perception or emotion regulation. Moderator analyses revealed no significant effects of digital affinity on training success from the pretest to the posttest. The findings suggest that components of self-reported emotional intelligence can be enhanced through WEIT 2.0, but performance-based emotional intelligence cannot. Further research is needed on the online training of emotional intelligence and the mechanisms that underlie training success. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-82a39715ea5c4509bf045a2ab850dc272023-11-18T11:04:54ZengMDPI AGJournal of Intelligence2079-32002023-06-0111612210.3390/jintelligence11060122Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0Marco Jürgen Held0Theresa Fehn1Iris Katharina Gauglitz2Astrid Schütz3Institute for Psychology, University of Bamberg, 96047 Bamberg, GermanyInstitute for Psychology, University of Bamberg, 96047 Bamberg, GermanyInstitute for Psychology, University of Bamberg, 96047 Bamberg, GermanyInstitute for Psychology, University of Bamberg, 96047 Bamberg, GermanyWith the growing popularity of online courses, there is an increasing need for scientifically validated online interventions that can improve emotional competencies. We addressed this demand by evaluating an extended version of the Web-Based Emotional Intelligence Training (WEIT 2.0) program. Based on the four-branch model of emotional intelligence, WEIT 2.0 focuses on improving participants’ emotion perception and emotion regulation skills. A total of 214 participants were randomly assigned to the training group (<i>n</i> = 91) or a waiting list control group (<i>n</i> = 123) to evaluate short-term (directly after WEIT 2.0) and long-term intervention effects (8 weeks later). Two-way MANOVAs and mixed ANOVAs showed significant treatment effects for self-reported emotion perception of the self, as well as emotion regulation of the self and others, after 8 weeks. No significant treatment effects were found for self-reported emotion perception in others or for performance-based emotion perception or emotion regulation. Moderator analyses revealed no significant effects of digital affinity on training success from the pretest to the posttest. The findings suggest that components of self-reported emotional intelligence can be enhanced through WEIT 2.0, but performance-based emotional intelligence cannot. Further research is needed on the online training of emotional intelligence and the mechanisms that underlie training success.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/11/6/122emotional intelligenceemotion perceptionemotion regulationonline trainingdigital affinity |
| spellingShingle | Marco Jürgen Held Theresa Fehn Iris Katharina Gauglitz Astrid Schütz Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 Journal of Intelligence emotional intelligence emotion perception emotion regulation online training digital affinity |
| title | Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 |
| title_full | Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 |
| title_fullStr | Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 |
| title_short | Training Emotional Intelligence Online: An Evaluation of WEIT 2.0 |
| title_sort | training emotional intelligence online an evaluation of weit 2 0 |
| topic | emotional intelligence emotion perception emotion regulation online training digital affinity |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/11/6/122 |
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