... There is also considerable agreement that higher EI, if measured in an appropriate manner, should be associated with more adaptive social/emotional functioningand that training programs designed to improve EI might therefore offer considerable benefits in a range of domains, including relationship satisfaction, leadership ability, career success, physical/emotional health, and many others (Brackett, Rivers, Reyes, & Salovey, 2012;Elias, Hunter, & Kress, 2001;Hagelskamp, Brackett, Rivers, & Salovey, 2013). This idea also gains support from previous studies suggesting that scores on EI-related measures tend to improve with age (Derksen, Kramer, & Katzko, 2002;Hemmati, Mills, & Kroner, 2004;Kafetsios, 2004), as well as with training in other domains (e.g., music lessons; see Thompson, Schellenberg, & Husain, 2004); that is, such results are most consistent with the idea that the EI construct refers to a set of psychological skills for which expertise can be gained through sufficient practice/experience. ...