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Overview

Carolyn MacCann is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and focuses primarily on the field of psychology, with a strong research output in clinical, social, and experimental and cognitive psychology subfields. Their work addresses various topics including emotional intelligence and performance, personality traits, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Among recent publications, MacCann is associated with studies such as:

  • Parental Burnout Around the Globe: a 42-Country Study (2021), published in Affective Science
  • Testing a model of fear of cancer recurrence or progression: the central role of intrusions, death anxiety and threat appraisal (2020), published in Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Emotional intelligence and attachment in adulthood: A meta-analysis (2021), published in Personality and Individual Differences
  • Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries (2022), published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • The Process Model of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: Assessing Individual Differences in Strategy Stage and Orientation (2022), published in Assessment

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with MacCann include:

  • Kit S. Double
  • S. Walker
  • Sally Olderbak
  • Hannah Kunst
  • Rebecca T. Pinkus

Publications predominantly appear in the following venues:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Emotion
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Their research topic distribution highlights significant contributions to:

  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Best Publications

  • Emotional intelligence predicts academic performance: A meta-analysis.

    Carolyn MacCann;Yixin Jiang;Luke E. R. Brown;Kit S. Double

  • New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence: theory and data.

    Carolyn MacCann;Richard D. Roberts

  • Coping mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and academic achievement

    Carolyn MacCann;Gerard J. Fogarty;Moshe Zeidner;Richard D. Roberts

  • Development of Emotional Intelligence: Towards a Multi-Level Investment Model

    Moshe Zeidner;Gerald Matthews;Richard D. Roberts;Carolyn MacCann

  • Testing complex models with small sample sizes: A historical overview and empirical demonstration of what Partial Least Squares (PLS) can offer differential psychology

    Harold W. Willaby;Daniel S.J. Costa;Bruce D. Burns;Carolyn MacCann

  • Empirical identification of the major facets of Conscientiousness

    Carolyn MacCann;Angela Lee Duckworth;Richard D. Roberts

  • Emotional intelligence is a second-stratum factor of intelligence: evidence from hierarchical and bifactor models.

    Carolyn MacCann;Dana L. Joseph;Daniel A. Newman;Richard D. Roberts

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: A REVIEW OF SELF‐REPORT AND PERFORMANCE‐BASED TESTING

    Carolyn MacCann;Gerald Matthews;Moshe Zeidner;Richard D. Roberts

  • Parental Burnout Around the Globe: a 42-Country Study

    Isabelle Roskam;Joyce Aguiar;Ege Akgun;Gizem Arikan

  • Exploring the validity of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) with established emotions measures.

    Richard D. Roberts;Ralf Schulze;Kristin O'Brien;Carolyn MacCann

  • Strategies for success in education: Time management is more important for part-time than full-time community college students

    Carolyn MacCann;Gerard J. Fogarty;Richard D. Roberts

  • Teacher personality and teacher effectiveness in secondary school: Personality predicts teacher support and student self-efficacy but not academic achievement

    Lisa E. Kim;Ilan Dar-Nimrod;Carolyn MacCann

  • Consensus scoring and empirical option weighting of performance-based Emotional Intelligence (EI) tests

    Carolyn MacCann;Richard D Roberts;Gerald Matthews;Moshe Zeidner

  • New perspectives on faking in personality assessment.

    Matthias Ziegler;Carolyn MacCann;Richard D. Roberts

  • Aesthetic Emotions and Aesthetic People: Openness Predicts Sensitivity to Novelty in the Experiences of Interest and Pleasure.

    Kirill Fayn;Carolyn MacCann;Niko Tiliopoulos;Paul J. Silvia

  • Emotional Intelligence and Job Performance: The Importance of Emotion Regulation and Emotional Labor Context

    Daniel A. Newman;Dana L. Joseph;Carolyn MacCANN

  • Emotional Intelligence: Toward a Consensus of Models and Measures

    Richard D. Roberts;Carolyn MacCann;Gerald Matthews;Moshe Zeidner

  • A closer look at ability emotional intelligence (EI): What are its component parts, and how do they relate to each other?

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Carolyn MacCann

  • Just as smart but not as successful: obese students obtain lower school grades but equivalent test scores to nonobese students

    C MacCann;R D Roberts

  • Further examination of emotional intelligence as a standard intelligence: A latent variable analysis of fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and emotional intelligence

    Carolyn MacCann

  • BRIEF REPORTS Exploring the Validity of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) with Established Emotions Measures

    Richard D. Roberts;Ralf Schulze;Carolyn MacCann;John Reid

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald Matthews
Gerald Matthews George Mason University
Moshe Zeidner
Moshe Zeidner University of Haifa
Louise Sharpe
Louise Sharpe University of Sydney
Barbara Mullan
Barbara Mullan Curtin University
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Matthias Ziegler
Matthias Ziegler Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gerard J. Fogarty
Gerard J. Fogarty University of Southern Queensland
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Laurie A. Miller
Laurie A. Miller Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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