Emotional Competence Development in Graduate Education: The Differentiated Impact of a Self-Leadership Program Depending on Personality Traits

There is little research on the effectiveness of self-leadership programs (SLPs) in graduate education based on the progress in emotional competences development (ECD), and only a few of the studies incorporate its relationship with personality traits (PTs). This article studies the differentiated i...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 666455
Main Authors Montalvo-Garcia, Adolfo, Martí-Ripoll, Margarita, Gallifa, Josep
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 21.05.2021
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big five
emotional competence development
graduate education
personal growth
personality traits
Psychology
self-leadership
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Summary:There is little research on the effectiveness of self-leadership programs (SLPs) in graduate education based on the progress in emotional competences development (ECD), and only a few of the studies incorporate its relationship with personality traits (PTs). This article studies the differentiated impact of an optional SLP, which has eight workshops with a learner-centered and experiential approach, depending on PTs. With a quasi-experimental ex post facto design, students' scores in EDC were analyzed according to their PT extremes: introversion, antagonism, lack of direction, neuroticism , and closed to experience . ANCOVA tests, with ECD pretest as a co-variable, were applied for each PT. The results indicated that the SLP presented a differentiated impact in ECD in four of the five PTs: neuroticism, introversion, antagonism, and lack of direction. These findings can be a key element for the participating students in SLPs because self-leadership requires self-knowledge. ECD can contribute to more integral learning in the graduate education experience, enhancing the preparation for the world of work.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
These authors have contributed equally to this work
Reviewed by: Maria Jesus Caurcel Cara, University of Granada, Spain; Rajab Esfandiari, Imam Khomeini International University, Iran
Edited by: Antonio Baena Extremera, University of Granada, Spain
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666455