Emotional intelligence impairments in women with fibromyalgia: Associations with widespread pain

Luque-Reca, Octavio; Pulido-Martos, Manuel; Gavilán-Carrera, Blanca; Inmaculada C García-Rodríguez; McVeigh, Joseph G.; Aparicio, Virginia A.; Estévez-López, Fernando

Emotional intelligence impairments in women with fibromyalgia: Associations with widespread pain

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Date

2019-12-09

Authors

Luque-Reca, Octavio

Pulido-Martos, Manuel

Gavilán-Carrera, Blanca

Inmaculada C García-Rodríguez

McVeigh, Joseph G.

Aparicio, Virginia A.

Estévez-López, Fernando

Publisher

Sage Publications

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319890916

Abstract

This study aimed at testing the differences in emotional intelligence ability between women with fibromyalgia (cases) and their age-matched counterparts not with fibromyalgia from the general population (controls) and analysing the association between emotional intelligence ability and widespread pain in women with fibromyalgia. A total of 133 cases and 77 controls participated in this cross-sectional study. Controls performed better than cases on emotion understanding. Higher emotion perception and management were significantly associated with lower widespread pain. Therefore, women with fibromyalgia may experience difficulties in understanding emotional information. In fibromyalgia, higher emotion perception and management abilities are independently related to lower widespread pain.

Keywords

Adaptation (psychological) , Cognition , Intelligence , Rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease , Fibromyalgia

Citation

Luque-Reca, O., Pulido-Martos, M., Gavilán-Carrera, B., García-Rodríguez, I.C., McVeigh, J.G., Aparicio, V.A. and Estévez-López, F. (2021) ‘Emotional intelligence impairments in women with fibromyalgia: Associations with widespread pain’, Journal of Health Psychology, 26(11), pp. 1901–1912. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319890916.