Emotional intelligence

Deficits in emotional intelligence (EI) were detected in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), but little is known about whether these deficits are already present in patients after presenting a first episode mania (FEM). We sought (i) to compare EI in patients after a FEM, chronic BD and healthy con...

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Authors: Varo, Cristina|||0000-0002-8859-3052, Amoretti, Silvia|||0000-0001-6017-2734, Sparacino, Giulio, Jiménez, Esther, Solé, Brisa|||0000-0003-1673-8248, Bonnin, Caterina del Mar|||0000-0002-1197-1596, Montejo, Laura|||0000-0003-4407-9454, Serra-Navarro, Maria|||0000-0002-9736-4630, Torrent, Carla|||0000-0003-0335-582X, Salagre, Estela|||0000-0001-6352-5179, Benabarre, Antoni, Salgado-Pineda, Pilar|||0000-0001-7720-0885, Montoro Salvatierra, Irene, Sáiz, Pilar A.|||0000-0002-5705-4523, García-Portilla, María Paz|||0000-0003-3643-1622, Sánchez Gistau, Vanessa|||0000-0002-8635-7144, Pomarol-Clotet, Edith|||0000-0002-8159-8563, Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni|||0000-0003-1622-0350, Pacchiarotti, Isabella|||0000-0002-7822-0367, Garcia Rizo, Clemente|||0000-0002-4855-1608, Undurraga, Juan|||0000-0001-6958-2369, Reinares, María|||0000-0001-8859-4453, Martínez-Àran, Anabel|||0000-0002-0623-6263, Vieta, Eduard|||0000-0002-0548-0053, Verdolini, Norma|||0000-0001-9488-2881
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:318129
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/318129
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1017/S0033291721005122
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Bipolar disorder
Emotional intelligence
First episode mania
MSCEIT
Verbal memory
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Summary:Deficits in emotional intelligence (EI) were detected in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), but little is known about whether these deficits are already present in patients after presenting a first episode mania (FEM). We sought (i) to compare EI in patients after a FEM, chronic BD and healthy controls (HC); (ii) to examine the effect exerted on EI by socio-demographic, clinical and neurocognitive variables in FEM patients. The Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ) was calculated with the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Performance on MSCEIT was compared among the three groups using generalized linear models. In patients after a FEM, the influence of socio-demographic, clinical and neurocognitive variables on the EIQ was examined using a linear regression model. In total, 184 subjects were included (FEM n = 48, euthymic chronic BD type I n = 75, HC n = 61). BD patients performed significantly worse than HC on the EIQ [mean difference (MD) = 10.09, standard error ( = 3.14, p = 0.004] and on the understanding emotions branch (MD = 7.46, = 2.53, p = 0.010). FEM patients did not differ from HC and BD on other measures of MSCEIT. In patients after a FEM, EIQ was positively associated with female sex (β = -0.293, p = 0.034) and verbal memory performance (β = 0.374, p = 0.008). FEM patients performed worse than HC but better than BD on few neurocognitive domains. Patients after a FEM showed preserved EI, while patients in later stages of BD presented lower EIQ, suggesting that impairments in EI might result from the burden of disease and neurocognitive decline, associated with the chronicity of the illness.

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