TY - JOUR N2 - Emotional intelligence (EI) is conceptualized as a personality trait or an ability. Most of conducted studies on EI-coping association referred to trait emotional intelligence. Therefore, the role of ability emotional intelligence is less clear and need to be further studied. The present study examined the relationship between two EI abilities (emotion recognizing and emotion understanding) and stress coping strategies in adolescent men and women. The data were collected from 1033 Polish high school students (520 men and 512 women) aged 18-20 years (Mage = 18.46 years). Coping strategies were assessed using the COPE inventory and emotional abilities were measured using the Emotional Intelligence Scale – Faces (SIE-T) and the Emotion Understanding Test (TRE). The results supported the existence of an association between EI abilities and coping strategies. The analyses of the interaction effects revealed the moderating role of gender on some of the relationships between EI abilities and coping strategies. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117758/PDF/2020-03-PPB-03-Piekarska-Martowska.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117758 PY - 2020 IS - No 3 EP - 200 DO - 10.24425/ppb.2020.134726 KW - emotional intelligence KW - stress coping strategies KW - emotion recognizing KW - emotion understanding A1 - Piekarska, Joanna A1 - Martowska, Katarzyna PB - Committee for Psychological Science PAS VL - vol. 51 DA - 2020.12.08 T1 - Adolescents’ emotional abilities and stress coping strategies: The moderating role of gender SP - 189 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/117758 T2 - Polish Psychological Bulletin ER -