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Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control, ... Daniel Goleman's book 'Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ' ...
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Overview Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. It has been suggested that EQ, the ‘emotion quotient ’ , or measure of emotional intelligence, is even more important than the somewhat less controversial ‘intelligence quotient ’ or IQ. Emotional intelligence didn't become popular as a term until around 1990 and interest has grown tremendously over the last 30 years. As early as the 1930s, psychologist Edward Thorndike described the concept of "social intelligence" as the ability to get along with other people. During the 1940s, psychologist David Wechsler proposed that different components of intelligence could play an important role in how successful people are in life. The 1950s saw the rise of humanistic psychology with the likes of Abraham Maslow focusing on the different ways that people could build emotional strength. In the mid-1970s, Howard Gardner introduced the idea that intelligence was more than just a single, general ability. The emergence of Emotional Intelligence It was not until 1985 that the term ‘emotional intelligence’ was first used in a doctoral dissertation by Wayne Payne. In 1987, an article published by Keith Beasley in Mensa Magazine uses the term ‘emotional quotient.’ Reuven Bar-On^1 , an Israeli psychologist proposed a quantitative approach to creating “an EQ comparable to an IQ score” in the first copy of his doctoral dissertation, which was submitted in 1985. In 1990, psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer^2 published their landmark article, ‘Emotional Intelligence,’ in the journal ‘Imagination, Cognition, and Personality’. In 1995, the concept of emotional intelligence was popularised after the publication of Daniel Goleman’s book ‘Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ’ which we have used as the basis for EI content in our Organisational Leadership Skills course. Below is an overview of a couple of the other prominent models mentioned above in the development of EI theory. (^1) The Bar-On concept of emotional and social intelligence Bar-On's model described emotional and social competencies that determine how effective individuals are at understanding and expressing themselves, understanding others and interacting with them as well as coping with daily demands and challenges. These competencies are clustered into the following five meta-factors – the ability to:
These five meta-factors comprise a total of 15 factors.