C. O. P. E.: A Formal Analysis

There are many areas that one can be emotionally intelligent. Mayor and Salovey developed a theory that emotional intelligence can be measured on the individual’s ability in four categories. The first, perception of emotion, measures the ability to read body and facial language, while the second, is how you facilitate once the emotion is recognized. The third category explains how to understand emotions and predict the way they can lead one through life. The last category is the ability of one’s self control of their emotions and awareness of the emotions of those around them, management of emotion (Salcedo & Kaufman, 2013). In this paper, I will discuss the importance of emotional awareness, coping with emotions and using emotions to build …show more content…
2014). Coping with emotions is a skill that takes planning and practice. Learning this skill is becoming more important for the young members of society to learn. There are many programs and tools that can assist with this learning. C.O.P.E. is a program that is taught to teens in a high school health class setting. This program teaches the importance of healthy living by teaching nutrition and physical activity, behavioral and emotional regulation, stress and coping, as well as goal setting and problem solving (Melnyk et al., 2013). I think that as successful programs like C.O.P.E. become more available, society will be able to see the positive impact in how emotions should be …show more content…
Emotional intelligence is not something that a person has or does not have. There are many areas cover self-awareness, self-management, empathy and social skills (Mcgraw-Hill / Irwin, n.d.). McGraw-Hill / Irwin offers a quiz that helps identify which areas a person has strength verses needs improvement. It is important to understand that emotional intelligence can change over the course of a lifetime. My husband and I took this quiz, while we scored very similarly in several categories, there were a few that made great sense why we may have outscored one another. For example, he scored almost perfectly in social skills. Most situations, I end up letting him lead the conversation and I join in much later. I always joke with him saying he is “warming up the crowd for me.” He is a salesman, so naturally, to excel, as he does, in his career, you must have great social skills. I outscored him in the self-awareness category, although as I discussed earlier in this paper, awareness is not a benefit on its own. Some other categories that we scored similarly on was self-motivation and self-management. We seem to really complement each other in ways that I think would fall into these categories. He lacks patience where I have it, and he is more disciplined where I am not. I think most relationships should take the Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence test, it offers a little insight