The contributions of personality and emotional intelligence to resiliency

Two studies report on the contribution of emotional intelligence to self-reported resiliency beyond that accounted for by the three most often cited contemporary personality trait models. The Resiliency Scale for Young Adults (RYSA), Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short Form (TEIQue-SF), Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ), Mini International Personality Item Pool Scale (Mini-IPIP), the HEXACO-60, and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised Short Form (EPQ-RS) were administered to 186 Italian university students and 189 Italian adult workers. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that EI accounted for additional variance in resiliency beyond that offered by each of the four personality trait models for both samples.