Emotional Intelligence Chapter 3 What Is Emotional Intelligence
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Emotional Intelligence Chapter 3
What Is Emotional Intelligence? • Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage moods, feelings, and attitudes. • EI consists of two general abilities: ▫ Understanding emotions ▫ Managing emotions
What Is Emotional Intelligence? (continued) • You and your emotions are not one and the same • Develop an awareness of how your emotions affect you • Think of your EI as a work in progress
Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life • Naming and labeling emotions strengthens EI skills • Hearing something emotional often triggers our own emotional reaction • Consider how to use logic rather than your own emotional reactions to evaluate a situation and be helpful to others
Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life (continued) • Motivation ▫ Positive feedback can help you stay motivated ▫ Draw from past positive experiences to propel yourself through a current challenge • Resilience ▫ Look past negative experiences, learn from them, and try again ▫ Developing coping mechanisms and life skills leads to resilience
Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life (continued) • Balance and priority management ▫ Finding balance goes beyond taking care of obligations and extends to your mental and physical health ▫ Using healthy EI to prioritize involves applying timemanagement techniques to handle your obligations ▫ More balance in your day leads to more confidence
Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life (continued) • Anger management ▫ Important EI skill to develop ▫ Anger: �Can hurt others and harm your mental and physical health �Does not always result in negative consequences �Is a primary, natural, and mature emotion because it can mobilize us to take corrective action
Developing Emotional Intelligence • Identifying competencies: ▫ Bar-On model ▫ Demonstrates how categories of emotional intelligence directly affect general mood and lead to effective performance
Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Intrapersonal skills ▫ Emotional self-awareness ▫ Assertiveness ▫ Independence ▫ Self-regard ▫ Self-actualization
Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Interpersonal skills ▫ Empathy ▫ Social responsibility ▫ Interpersonal relationships • Adaptability ▫ Reality testing ▫ Flexibility ▫ Problem solving
Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Stress management ▫ Stress tolerance ▫ Impulse control • Overall mood ▫ Optimism ▫ Happiness
How Emotions Affect Success • Emotions are strongly tied to physical and psychological well-being • Research indicates students with strong EI skills are more likely to succeed in college • Motivation ▫ One of the most important attributes college students can have ▫ Strive to discover and nurture your motivation
How Emotions Affect Success (continued) • Resilience ▫ Stronger EI leads to greater resilience ▫ Students with healthy EI are likely to act proactively ▫ Students with unhealthy EI are likely to struggle academically • Persistence ▫ Persistent students make forward progress through challenging situations, even if progress is slow
How Emotions Affect Success (continued) • Delaying gratification ▫ Students who can delay gratification tend to do better overall ▫ Stanford Marshmallow Study �Children who waited to eat the marshmallow scored an average of 210 points higher on the SAT �Had more confidence, better concentration, and reliability �Held better-paying jobs �Reported being more satisfied with life
How Emotions Affect Success (continued) • Healthy EI and the first-year seminar ▫ Researchers have found that college students enrolled in a first-year seminar who demonstrated good EI skills were more likely to do better in college
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How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence • Developing EI is important toward getting the full benefits of college • Strategies to improve EI: ▫ Identify your strengths and weaknesses ▫ Set realistic goals ▫ Formulate a plan ▫ Check your progress on a regular basis
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