ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The Emotional Recession: global declines in emotional intelligence and its impact on organizational retention, burnout, and workforce resilience.
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- Playfulness: Confronting Resident Disengagement in Psychiatry Training.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Into the headwinds: key emotional intelligence capacities that predict women's workplace wellbeing across job roles.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Emotional intelligence and perspective-taking as drivers of creativity among mid-level managers in commercial banks in Ecuador.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread disruptions to workplace wellbeing and employee engagement, intensifying risks of burnout and reduced retention. Although organizational performance has been widely studied, few investigations have examined longitudinal declines in emotional intelligence (EQ) during the pandemic and its aftermath or considered their implications for organizational resilience. Methods: This study analyzed EQ trends from 2019 to 2024 using data from the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI), a validated 77-item instrument measuring eight core competencies and four life outcome factors. The stratified sample comprised 28,000 adults across 166 countries. Results: Global EQ scores declined by 5.79% (Cohen's Discussion: These findings reveal an "Emotional Recession," a sustained global decline in emotional and relational capacities with direct implications for wellbeing, engagement, and organizational resilience.
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