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Emotional Intelligence, What Is It and How Does It Benefit Me?
Emotional intelligence is a concept developed through various models. It refers to the ability to successfully process and manage your emotions. The world-renowned psychologist, Daniel Goleman, called emotional intelligence a set of skills such as self-control, enthusiasm, empathy, perseverance and the capacity for self-motivation. Best-selling author Emotional Intelligence proposed that some of these skills are genetic and others are learned. These allow you to learn from your own experiences, he complemented his idea.
Emotional intelligence and social domains
Emotional intelligence applies in all social areas: in the family, school, work and in interpersonal relationships. The latter provides the subject with the ability to understand others, their motivations, how they relate. Also the ability to recognize and react to humour, temperament and emotions. At an intrapersonal level, emotional intelligence is linked to the ability of the subject to form an accurate and realistic model of himself, having access to his own feelings and using them as guides for behaviour.
At the school level, children must start the social-emotional teaching-learning processes early, if they are to be successful. The objective will be that the results are better and more solid…
