Cognition and emotion are interrelated concepts. However, very little is known about the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and emotional intelligence (EI) and their effect on the retrieval and generation of emotional vocabulary. This study aimed to explore correlation patterns between WMC and four factors of trait EI (well-being, self-control, emotionality, sociability). It also sought to examine whether WMC and trait EI are significant determinants of the number and perceived pleasantness of emotion words freely retrieved and produced in a non-emotionally charged context and the extent to which language of retrieval had an effect on this association. The results showed negative correlations between WMC and two factors of trait EI (well-being and emotionality). Trait EI was the sole predictor variable of the perceived pleasantness of the words retrieved, whereas trait EI, language of retrieval, and gender explained a statistically significant amount of the variance in the number of emotion words generated. Qualitative analysis of the emotional vocabulary revealed a slight predominance of positive words and common patterns in the most highly activated words in both first and second languages.

认知和情感是相互关联的概念。但是，关于工作记忆能力（WMC）和情绪智力（EI）之间的关系以及它们对情绪词汇的检索和生成的影响知之甚少。这项研究旨在探讨WMC与特质EI的四个因素（幸福感，自我控制，情绪，社交能力）之间的相关模式。它还试图检查WMC和特质EI是否是在非情感环境中自由检索和产生的情感词的数量和感觉愉悦性的重要决定因素，以及检索语言对该关联的影响程度。结果显示，WMC与特质EI的两个因素（幸福感和情感性）之间呈负相关。特质EI是所检索单词的愉悦感的唯一预测变量，而特质EI，检索语言和性别则解释了所产生的情感单词数量的统计学差异。对情感词汇的定性分析显示，在第一语言和第二语言中，在激活程度最高的单词中，积极单词和常见模式略占优势。