Inteligencia emocional y aspectos neurológicos disfuncionalesimplicaciones en la salud mental y el bienestar emocional
ISSN: 2386-2300, 0214-6118
Year of publication: 2006
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 97-121
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de psicología de la salud
Abstract
La Inteligencia Emocional (IE) es entendida como un conjunto de habilidades interrelacionadas implicadas en la percepción, el uso, la compresión y la regulación de las emociones (Mayer y Salovey, 1997). Este concepto aporta dos ventajas sobre otros: (a) estimular investigaciones más focalizadas en la comprensión de habilidades de procesamiento de la información y en estrategias que subyacen en la IE y (b) que puede ser evaluado a través de tareas cognitivas o test de rendimientos como el MSCEIT (Mayer, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test). Este artículo presenta la hipotética relación entre cada una de las ramas del concepto de IE con aspectos neuropatológicos que tienen como consecuencia disfunciones psicológicas para la percepción y expresión ecmocional; para la facilitación emocional de la actividad cognitiva; la comprensión de los procesos emocionales; y para la regulación de las emociones en uno mismo y en los demás. Desde una perspectiva neurobiológica se explica la importancia de las conexiones corticales y subcorticales que vinculan el aspecto cognitivo (inteligente) y emocional del cerebro. La constatación neurológica de estas difunciones viene a apoyar la idea de que la IE es un concepto novedosos, es un tipo de inteligencia y que aporta hipótesis de trabajo válidas para el campo de la salud mental. Si bien en este caso no ha sido desde la psicología positiva.
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