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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence. Chapter 3. What Is Emotional Intelligence?. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the a bility to identify, use, understand, and manage moods, feelings, and attitudes. EI consists of two general abilities: Understanding emotions Managing emotions.

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Emotional Intelligence

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  1. Emotional Intelligence Chapter 3

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 time-management techniques to handle your obligations • More balance in your day leads to more confidence

  7. 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

  8. Developing Emotional Intelligence • Identifying competencies: • Bar-On model • Demonstrates how categories of emotional intelligence directly affect general mood and lead to effective performance

  9. Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Intrapersonal skills • Emotional self-awareness • Assertiveness • Independence • Self-regard • Self-actualization

  10. Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Interpersonal skills • Empathy • Social responsibility • Interpersonal relationships • Adaptability • Reality testing • Flexibility • Problem solving

  11. Developing Emotional Intelligence (continued) • Stress management • Stress tolerance • Impulse control • Overall mood • Optimism • Happiness

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Tech Tip: Use Blogs and Twitter • Research areas that you find interesting on blogging sites • Add the blog’s app to your phone or tablet • Participate in a network of people who share your interests

  17. 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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