Association Between the Big Five and Trait Emotional Intelligence Among College Students

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Table 1 Mean, Standard Deviation, Skewness, and Kurtosis for the Study Variables

Variables	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Age	19.370	1.306	0.820	0.001
Extraversion (0.73)	3.335	0.724	−0.113	−0.163
Agreeableness (0.62)	3.762	0.555	−0.419	0.217
Conscientiousness (0.67)	3.404	0.615	0.055	−0.117
Neuroticism (0.70)	3.020	0.698	−0.062	−0.270
Openness (0.52)	3.608	0.488	−0.235	0.043
Global TEI (0.81)	4.723	0.663	−0.072	0.252
Well-being (0.62)	5.252	0.909	−0.441	0.186
Self-control (0.50)	4.218	0.911	−0.228	0.041
Emotionality (0.55)	4.694	0.909	−0.149	−0.084
Sociability (0.52)	4.600	0.906	−0.222	−0.041

Note: N = 320. Internal consistency coefficients are in parentheses.

Table 2 Bivariate Correlations Between the Trait Emotional Intelligence and Big Five Factors

Variables	TEI	Well-Being	Self-control	Emotionality	Sociability
Extraversion	0.386**	0.368**	0.162**	0.223**	0.294**
Agreeableness	0.336**	0.246**	0.250**	0.306**	0.114*
Conscientiousness	0.413**	0.327**	0.299**	0.216**	0.266**
Neuroticism	−0.455**	−0.341**	−0.503**	−0.207**	−0.270**
Openness	0.370**	0.369**	0.175**	0.213**	0.272**

Note: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.

Table 3 Regressions of the Big Five Traits on the Global and Four-Factor Scores of the Trait Emotional Intelligence

Dependent Variable	R^2	Adj R^2	F (df)	TEI	β	t
Global Trait EI	0.436	0.427	48.595 **(5, 314)	E	0.233	5.247**
				A	0.106	2.302**
				C	0.252	5.596**
				N	−0.285	−6.274**
				O	0.208	4.637**
Well-being	0.321	0.310	29.670**(5, 314)	E	0.249	5.115**
				A	0.044	0.869
				C	0.192	3.893**
				N	−0.191	−3.823**
				O	0.245	4.987**
Self-control	0.301	0.290	27.012** (5, 314)	E	0.012	0.251
				A	0.077	1.500
				C	0.170	3.395**
				N	−0.435	−8.587**
				O	0.056	1.118
Emotionality	0.156	0.143	11.624** (5, 314)	E	0.140	2.582**
				A	0.209	3.717**
				C	0.107	1.936
				N	−0.081	−1.450
				O	0.100	1.826
Sociability	0.199	0.186	15.573** (5, 314)	E	0.208	3.930**
				A	−0.058	−1.055
				C	0.180	3.363**
				N	−0.167	−0.3.080**
				O	0.188	3.519**

Note: **p < 0.01.

Abbreviations: E, Extraversion; A, Agreeableness; C, Conscientiousness; N, Neuroticism; O, Openness.