I read the source article. It is obviously written for people in the field so it’s hard for a layman to follow in some areas. As I read it, we score lower on three of the four measures, but the lower score means that we are not less “emotionally intelligent”, but less emotional?
For a profession that needs to keep their heads and do their job right up until the impact, that would seem to be a good thing. As a married man with two teenage daughters, I recognize that you are upset/sad/anxious/etc. I also see that those emotions are not making things better so I’m intelligent about emotions, and I keep them locked in a box in a dark room covered in cobwebs like I’m supposed to. I’m wondering why you are so emotional and how you’ll survive in the world.
This reminds me of the TeD talk where the scientist discovered a test for psychosis that worked perfectly except for some reason he scored as a psychopath himself. Upon further research with his family and friends, it turned out he was a psychopath. He never knew.