10 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Jessica Mungia Delaware Technical Community College Abstract Around every other corner, people are faced with intimate or professional interactions with one another. Being cognizant of emotional intelligence and the many individual and social benefits it can provide can make all the difference towards bettering life. Different models of breakdown within the field are divided into either the mental ability or a mixed-model approach. To test these theories, several comparable scientific assessments have been created for each division. The extent of a person's emotional intelligence can affect a person from all ages and walks of life, so training measures are being utilized from the startup of school to the employment vicinity.
Emotional Intelligence
On a daily basis, people are confronted with intrapersonal and interpersonal dilemmas. Considering so, researchers have attempted to learn ways to better how we think and do things as a whole. Emotional intelligence [EI] was one of those concepts for improvement having been traced all the way back to 1909 as a division of social intelligence by the educator John Dewey (Zeidner, Matthews, & Roberts, 2009, p. 6).
Many academics have stressed the importance of intelligence quotient, but several studies have led researchers and psychologists to believe that it alone cannot do justice to expressing an individual's potential. It is because of this claim that within the last decade or so, a wide-range of emotional intelligence has been brought about. Though there are differences in definition, researchers tend to agree that EI as "the ability to perceive and express emotions, understand and reason with emotions, and regulate emotion in self and others" (Nowack, 2012, p. 62).
Emotions can have a great effect on the way people go about their daily lives, known by all who come in contact with those in moods differing from disgruntle, to joyful, or even anxious. These feelings and all others "affect information processing by influencing our thoughts, judgments, and behaviors, coloring how we perceive our environment, how we encode, process, and retrieve information, and the way we respond to social situations" (Zeidner et al. , 2009, p. 172). With such a huge number of effects mentioned, it is easy to compute the importance of emotions. So unfortunately, someone who is lacking in the emotional intelligence perspective may not have the same ability as those high in EI to be successful, resilient, and maintain healthy relationships (Moon, n. d. , para. 9). The thought of creating a truly satisfying life is one shared with the vast majority of people making their way through this world. Being aware of emotional intelligence supplies another "tool" towards creating a sense of fulfillment in the "box" of human existence.
With the gain of popularity, emotional intelligence has grown into a variety of model breakdowns. The two main categories of EI separation are either mental abil...
