1. Look up and summarize the Four Branches of Emotional Intelligence as described by Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. Make sure to provide the URL of the website that you used to find this information.
The four branches of emotional intelligence are emotional perception and expression, use of emotions, emotional understanding, and emotional management. Emotional perception and expression is the ability to be aware of what emotions oneself is feeling and being able to directly express and communicate that emotion to others. This also means being able to recognize emotions in other people’s facial expressions, voices, and in images. The use of emotions is the ability to use your emotions constructively. This means to let your emotions guide you,
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Conduct an online search on the importance of emotional intelligence in children and adolescents. According to your findings, how important is emotional intelligence for student achievement and overall psychological well-being? Are schools incorporating curriculum that focuses on social/emotional development? Include the URL of the Website that you used to answer this question.
Emotional intelligence is important in children and adolescents because it allows them to accurately convey how they are feeling. It is important for children to be able to realize “This makes me angry” and articulate it, rather than just throwing a temper tantrum. Children are often seen as “irrational” because of these temper tantrums, but it is a symptom of them not being taught how to express their emotions properly. According to my findings, children with emotional intelligence have higher grades in school and make healthier life choices. Their overall psychological well-being is better and they have better relationships with others. This means that emotional intelligence is also important for children’s academic achievement, as well as their social well-being. If children understand their emotions, then they can understand the social and academic impact their behavior has. This will encourage them to be more discerning of their own and other’s emotions and increase their social
Emotional Intelligence, also known as ‘EI’, is defined as the ability to recognize, authoritize and evaluate emotions. The ability to control and express our own emotions is very important but so is our ability to understand, interpret and respond to the emotions of others. To be emotionally intelligent one must be able to perceive emotions, reason with emotions, understand emotions and manage emotions.
Emotional intelligence is the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. (Ledlow & Coppola,
The scope of emotional intelligence includes the verbal and nonverbal appraisal and expression of emotion, the regulation of emotion in the self and others, and the utilization of emotional content in problem solving. (pp. 433)
The ideas of this article intrigued me because of the information presented in the beginning paragraphs. This article elaborates upon how important the ability of being able to distinguish between positive and negative emotions is. Through the faces presented in the start of the article, I learned that affective development “generally precedes cognitive and behavioral development, as children experience emotions and react to them long before they are able to verbalize or cope. However, social and emotional competencies do not unfold automatically; rather they are strongly influenced by the child’s early learning environment” (Kramer, Caldarella, Christensen & Shatzer 2010). As an educator, I feel as though this is a pertinent piece of important information. Oftentimes students will view school as their safe-haven, and, with all the struggles that they are facing at home, emotions are let loose in the wrong ways. This social-emotional learning program reportedly help...
The ability to express and control our own emotions is vital for our survival in society and the work place but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Salovey and Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence (Cherry, 2015).
The first topic that I want to touch on is the idea of academic intelligence having little to do with emotional life. Goleman states that, “Emotional intelligence is the ability to motivate oneself, persist in the face of frustrations, regulate one’s moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think.” I feel that academic intelligence gives you no preparation for the turmoil and opportunities that life brings. The funny thing is that our schools and our culture are still fixated on our academic abilities. Even though emotional intelligence is a new concept, the information that does exist suggests it can be as powerful as I.Q. Instead, we should acknowledge emotional intelligence as a set of traits that can matter immensely on our person...
For moreover, Daniel Goleman (2004) explained that emotional intelligence plays an integral role in defining character and determining both our individual and group densities. It involves the ability in monitoring one’s own and others emotion, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and action. It means to embrace the power of emotion intelligently, it involves abilities that may be categorized, into five (5) domains: (1) self-awareness, (2) emotional maturity, (3) self-motivation, (4) emphatic understanding, and (5) quality communication.
Emmerling, R. J., & Goleman, D. (2003). EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: ISSUES AND COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS. Issues and Recent Developments in Emotional Intelligence, 1(1), 1-32.
Mayer, J.D., Salovey, P., Caruso, D.R. (2000). Emotional intelligence as Zeitgeist, as personality, and as a mental ability. The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence, ed/. J.D.A. Parker 9San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp92-117.
According to the peter Salovey and John D. Mayer (1990), “" they defined emotional intelligence as, "the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions"
Goleman, D., 2005. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Teaching children how to better regulate their feelings, actions, and emotions can dramatically help their achievement and accomplishments later on in life. Emphasizing emotional competence and emotional regulation practices in early education programs, therapy, and after school programs would have the best benefit for children and can curve negative behaviors before they
Emotional intelligence can best be defined as being able to regulate one’s own emotions, while at the same being able to identify and empathize with the emotions of others (Morrison, 2007). This is an important skill to have within the realm of social work practice because as social workers, we are working with people on all levels, micro, mezzo, and macro, who are usually experiencing some of the most emotional times of their life. As those emotional buffers for our clients, we need to be able to regulate
These articles have proven that emotional intelligence results in stronger relationships, success in school and eventually the ability for adolescents to achieve their future careers and personal goals. An important lesson learned from these articles is that emotional intelligence is an important quality to have in life, not only to succeed academically but to improve a person’s overall happiness. Although some believe that emotional intelligence and academic achievement are not associated with each other, these articles prove otherwise. The ability to adapt feelings, to problem solve, and to manage emotional feelings has been proven to lead to higher GPAs. Unfortunately students experience an abundance of stressors beyond school work, therefore it is important for students to understand how to cope with these life situations as they can consume their daily thought processes and affect their GPA’s. This is why educating adolescents to be successful in their future requires education that fosters both academic and emotional intelligence abilities. Not only can this improve academic abilities, but it can also improve the overall happiness of a person. Future research should test to see how emotional intelligence affects people of different studies and different personalities so that educators can have different strategies for different people. This is important because in one of my articles it seems that science students have a lower emotional intelligence than art students. Therefore, emotional intelligence characteristics should be taught to students in this major as it is proven to have a bigger impact on their academic achievement.After this debate I have learned a lot about emotional intelligence and its importance to students academic success. As a future educator, I would like to see my students succeed and I believe implementing emotional
There are four main factors identified in emotional intelligence. The first is the perceiving of emotions, which involves the initial understanding of emotions in order to perceive them accurately (Parker et al, 2013). In most cases, it could involve the comprehension of facial expressions and body language. The second factor is reasoning with emotions, which involves the use of perceived emotions in the promotion of cognitive and thinking activity. An individual’s emotions have a critical role to play in their prioritization of what they pay attention to, as well as react to. Te next factor is the understanding of emotions, which involves how the individual interprets the perceived emotions. The individual will be required to, for example, interpret why another individual is expressing emotions of anger. The final factor is the management of emotions, which refers to a person’s ability to manage effectively their own emotions (Parker et al, 2013). Regulation of emotion, appropriate response, and how one responds to other people’s emotions is fundamental aspects of EI.