Experiences of childhood emotional maltreatment and emotional intelligence in young women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on the long-term consequences of childhood maltreatment underscores its contribution to impairments in cognitive-affective functions. According to trait models, emotional intelligence is subdivided into experiential abilities (emotion perception and thought facilitation through emotion) and strategic abilities (understanding and managing emotion). In the present study, we examined the relationship of emotional and other forms of childhood maltreatment with overall trait emotional intelligence and its specific facets in women with adverse childhood experiences.

Materials and methods

Our sample consisted of ninety-seven young women with experiences of childhood maltreatment as assessed with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Trait emotional intellige

SUBMITTER: Suslow T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12271162 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature