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1 7-2 Finale Project: Research Study Report Felicia Harris Southern New Hampshire University MATT - 133 Cynthia Roberts December 11, 2021

2 Introduction The article I chose is Emotional intelligence, trauma severity, and emotional expression. This study investigated Emotional Intelligence (EI) as a moderator for the association between emotional expression and adaptive trauma processing, as measured by depressive symptoms (Kao & Chen, 2016). The study was to see if depression was linked with religion and trauma. The population was of college students from National Central University in Taiwan and must be at least eighteen years of age and they were able to choose extra credit or money for participating. The sample size was 105 students 48 were males and 57 were female. The average age was 20.7 years. Participants had to complete both a base and a follow up assessment. Fifty-three participants (21 male, 32 female) had to do trauma writing and the rest had to do a religious trauma writing condition. They had to have three writing sessions over a seven-day period and could not do more than once a day for a month. At the end of the month, they has to come back for one last follow up assessment. There was no significant difference between conventional trauma (CTC) and religious trauma- writing condition (RTC) for BDI-II at T2 (p > .75). Analysis In the article they state that not all traumatic events lead to posttraumatic stress disorder however religion is an important concept in psychological trauma. association between religious emotional expression and adaptation to psychological trauma may be moderated by other important variables, such as gender and trauma severity,11 or other closely related constructs, such as emotional intelligence (Kao & Chen, 2016). Emotional intelligence (EI) is the person’s ability to express and manage emotions.

3 The study used the Pennebaker’s written emotional expression paradigm to measure depression symptoms. They did this by having the participants complete a month of writing and a follow up assessment. There are depression symptoms were measured using the Beck Depression Inventory-II(BDI-II). Which is a twenty oneself rating inventory that measures symptom of depression. Everyone was asked their age, gender and how long ago did the trauma happen. They were asked to rate how they were feeling in the past two weeks ranging for 0 to 3. Emotional intelligence was measured using the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short Form (TEIQue-SF). The participants were asked to rate their emotional abilities from 1 to 7 and 1 being completely disagree to 7 completely agree. Contrary to our expectations, no significant effects for any of the remaining predictors were found in this analysis (ps > .09) (Kao & Chen, 2016). In the religious category they were asked “how religious are you?” They had to rate from 1 to 5 and 5 being extremely. The trauma severity is measured by using the Impact of Event Scale Revised IES-R. This is done by filling out a 22 question self-report. They were asked to rate the last seven days of how high their stress was from 0 to 4 and 0 being not at all to 4 extremely. In conclusion the study of Emotional intelligence (EI) with religion, emotional expression and trauma did not show a relationship between EI and religion. Also, there was no difference in the high EI vs the low EI. Discussion After reading this article a few times I have to say what surprised me was how much religion was a part of this research for depression and trauma. I would never thought about

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4 religion being a part of depression. However, religion wasn’t highly associated with emotional intelligence. The hypothesis that participants with lower EI would benefit more from religious writing than their high EI counterparts, was found only among those who registered severe trauma (Ken & Chen, 2016). I do believe that the researchers did have a good research topic however I felt like the sample size was too small could have used more than just college students. A bigger sample size would give more answers on does emotional intelligence play a role in religion, depression, emotional expression, and trauma. Additional studies are needed in order to decipher possible differential effects between religion or spirituality and perspective taking on adaptive trauma processing (Ken & Chen, 2016).

5 References Kao, M. C., & Chen, Y. Y. (2016). Emotional intelligence, trauma severity and emotional expression: Interactive effects on depressive symptoms. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 431-441.

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