Ability of university-level education to prevent age-related decline in emotional intelligence

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Cabello, Rosario ^a   Bravo, Beatriz Navarro ^b,c   Latorre, José Miguel ^b   Fernández Berrocal, Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c Clinical Research Unit of the Integrated Healthcare Office of Albacete Paraplegics National Hospital Fundation   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active reserve; Aging; Educational level; Elderly; Emotional intelligence; Mediate; Moderate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LIFESPAN; MALE; MAYER SALOVEY CARUSO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TEST; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 84898052784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00037     Document Type: Article

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