Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It includes the following skills:
Emotional awareness - the ability to identify our own emotions and those of others;
The ability to use emotions in tasks like problems solving;
The ability to manage emotions by regulating our own emotions, and to cheer up or calm down other person emotions.
Emotion refers to the feelings associated with the vigorous motion of the body, such as fear, joy, anger and disgust. Thus it is an agitated or excited state of mind and body. Emotions are conscious feelings that are very important for our personal and social adjustment. We all have different personalities, different …show more content…
This twin quality is inseparable and it exercises tremendous influence in the everyday life of individuals. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize and understand one’s emotions and those of others, for motivating oneself and for managing emotions well in oneself and in one’s relationship. Emotional Intelligence (EI) may be defined as the capacity to reason with emotions in four areas: to perceive emotions, to integrate it in thought, to understand it and to manage it.
In the late 1930’s, Robert Thorndike coined the term ‘Social intelligence’. The psychologists Salovey and Mayer originally coined the term “Emotional Intelligence” in 1990. However, Daniel Goleman popularized it in 1995 in the title of his bestselling book “Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ.” Goleman(1995) claimed that emotional intelligence “can be as powerful and at times more powerful, than I.Q.” He identified the domains of EI as
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It can determine the output of one’s performance, physical capacity, mental health and even his relationships. Although there are different emotional, communication and behavioral theories that were developed years ago, Components of Emotional Intelligence are summed up into four main attributes. These are; self-awareness or perceiving your own emotions, self-management or reasoning with your emotions, social awareness or understanding other’s emotions, and relationship management, or managing emotions. These attributes are arranged from the most basic to the most integrated psychological processes. These domains are represented in four quadrants, two under personal competence and two under social