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Emotional intelligence - Raising awareness about the concept of emotional intelligence

EQF LEVEL (INTERNAL REFERENCE): 2

 

keywords 

1 Emotional intelligence

2 Multiple intelligences

3 Emotions

4 Social skills

5 Smart relations 

 

Introduction: 

Expected Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this LU you will be able to know what emotional intelligence is and why it affects and influences our daily lives. 

You will learn the concept of emotional intelligence, its origin and components, understanding what specific skills and competencies inside it, will help you to know yourself better, to understand others better and to develop successful relationships and teams in both the personal and professional live.

 

Content: 

Emotions are intrinsic and essential to our behaviour and mental activity. That’s why they are something that must be studied in order to understand in a better way how we are or how we behave, both individually and collectively. 

Emotional intelligence simply helps you to understand:

It is a key tool for developing healthy and successful relationships in all spheres of life. 

Before the 1990s, the intelligence, measured through the Intelligence Quotient (IQ), was used to classify and predict people's evolution, behaviour and success, focusing only on academic aspects, but there was no trace of emotions in all this analysis. 

Researchers from different fields of psychology began to detect a few decades ago that the abilities and skills needed to achieve that "successful life" were others far beyond the use of logic, reasoning, speed or memory. And moreover, were not assessable through an intelligence test as it was known until then. This showed the need to have a broader conception of what basic cognitive skills are, that is, what we understand by intelligence. 

It was from here that emotions and, consequently, emotional intelligence began to form part of the analysis of people's behaviour, capabilities and potential, extended to other different perspectives such as Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, the basis of the well-known Emotional Intelligence popularised by Daniel Goleman nowadays. 

Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences defends the idea that if our mind and intelligence are incredibly versatile and allow us to adapt, change, improve, improvise... the way in which their potential is measured should be equally versatile and not as rigid as IQ tests and their results show.

Thus, Gardner presents 8 types of intelligence, all with the same importance, but with different fields and variables, which added together can help to draw a person's potential and capabilities:

  1. Linguistic-verbal intelligence, ability to use written and spoken language.
  2. Logical-mathematical intelligence, ability to solve calculations and think critically.
  3. Spatial intelligence, ability to form a mental model of the environment in three dimensions, allowing to visualise and relate shapes, spaces...
  4. Musical intelligence, related to the sensitivity to sounds.
  5. Bodily and kinaesthetic intelligence, ability to use the body through movement. 
  6. Intrapersonal intelligence, the ability to understand and develop one's relationship with yourself.
  7. Interpersonal intelligence, the ability to understand and develop the relationship with others.
  8. Naturalistic intelligence, the ability to relate to nature, to observe it, to investigate it. 

On this basis, John Mayer and Peter Salovey demonstrated that in our minds, cognition and emotion work together, processing information from the environment, from our context and situation, and thus successfully resolving difficulties and challenges. 

It was shown that the ability to control feelings and emotions in oneself and others, to discriminate between them and to use this information to guide one's actions and thoughts, was necessary and useful for decision making and reasoning. 

Daniel Goleman, with his multiple books on Emotional Intelligence made this term and its implications known, including the five areas of emotional intelligence which would facilitate its development and application:

Are emotions really important in our daily lives? 

If we look closely, we can see that they influence our decisions, behaviour and relationships with others, even if we do not realise it. We might ask ourselves whether we really understood the motives and circumstances of a colleague when s/he told us s/he had a problem, or whether we chose a solution that was appropriate to all the people involved in a conflict.

 

Emotional Intelligence is the set of skills that allows us to know ourselves and relate to others in a responsible and effective way. It can be exercised and improved throughout our lives and will help us both personally and professionally.



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