What is Emotion?
§ (
Latin origin ‘Emovere’ – meaning is ‘to stir up’ or ‘to excite’)
§ Emotion
is agitated or excited state of our mind and Body
According to woodworth
(1945):-
§ Emotion
is a ‘moved’ or ‘stirred up’ sate of an organism.
§ It
is a ‘stirred up’ sate of feeling, that is the way is appears to the individual
himself.
§ It
is disturbed muscular and glandular activity, that is the way it appears to an
external observer.
§ Example
:- Fear, Anger, Disgust, Wonder, Love, Amusement etc.
Emotional
Intelligence
The
term ‘Emotional Intelligence’ was introduced in 1990 by two American university
professors Dr. John Mayer and Dr. Peter Salovey
Emotional
Intelligence may be defined as the capacity to reason with emotion in four
areas:
·
To perceive emotion,
·
To integrate it in thought,
·
To understand it and
·
To manage it.
It
is the capacity or skill to perceive, access and manage the emotion of one’s
self, of others, and of groups.
Definition
:
John
mayer and Peeter Salovey :-
“Emotional
Intelligence is the form of social intelligence that involves the ability to
monitor one’s own and others feelings of Emotions, to discriminate among them
and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action”.
Danial
Goleman (1998):-
“Emotional
Intelligence refers to the capacity of recognizing our own feelings and those
of others for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves
and in our relationships”
Emotional Intelligence consist four
abilities:
ü The
capacity to accurately perceive Emotions
ü The
capacity to use emotions to facilitate thinking
ü The
capacity to understand emotional meanings
ü The
capacity to manage Emotion
Importance
of Emotional Intelligence
Ø It
allows thinking more creatively
Ø Use
our Emotions to solve problems
Ø It
appears to be an important set of psychological abilities that related to life
success.
Ø It
is empathy and communication skills as well as social and leadership skills
that will be central to your success in life and personal relationships.
Ø Emotional
intelligence is essential to interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships at
school, at home and at work
Ø Emotions
are a critical source of information for learning
Ø The
basic unit of human memory is information in context plus feeling
Ø There
is no separation of mind and emotions; emotion-thinking-learning are linked
Ø Emotional
intelligence is helping to focus on what it means to be complete human beings
Ø All
learning has an emotional base
Goleman’s
Five Emotional competencies
Ø Ability
to identify the name of Emotional states (Emotion-thought-Action)
Ø The
capacity to manage one’s emotional states (Control, shift)
Ø The
ability to enter in to emotional states (drive to achieve)
Ø The
capacity to read, be sensitive and influence other people’s emotions.
Ø The
ability to enter and sustain satisfactory interpersonal relationships.
Components
of Emotional Intelligence
Goleman
identified the following five basic Emotional and Social competencies in
Emotional Intelligence
1.
Self-awareness
·
Knowing One's Internal States, Preferences, Resources, And Intuitions.
·
Knowing what we are feeling in the
moment
·
Using those preferences to guide our
decision making
·
Having a realistic assessment of our own
abilities and
·
A well-grounded sense of self confidence
2.
Self-regulation
·
Managing One's Internal States, Impulses, And Resources
·
Handling our Emotions so that they
facilitate rather than interfere with the task at hand
·
Recovering well from distress
3.
Self-motivation
·
Emotional Tendencies That Guide Or Facilitate Reaching Goals
·
Using our deepest preference to move and
guide us towards goals,
·
To help us take initiative and strive to
improve
4.
Empathy
·
Awareness Of Others' Feelings, Needs, And Concerns
·
Recognizing and understanding other
people’s emotion.
·
Sensing what people are feeling
·
Being able to take their perspective
5.
Social
Skills
·
Adeptness At Inducing Desirable Responses In Others
·
Managing relationships
·
Managing emotion of others
·
Handling emotions in relationships well
and accurately reading social situation and network
·
Interaction smoothly
·
Co-operation and team work
Emotional Quotient (EQ)
·
The term Emotional Quotient (EQ) was
coined by BarOn in 1988
·
EQ is a measure of one’s emotional
Intelligence
·
EQ is a person’s ability to understand
their own emotion and those of others, and to act appropriately using these
emotions.
·
Dozier: - “EQ is the ability to perceive
and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with
emotion, and regulate emotion in the self and others”.
Concept of Mental age
Ø Mental age is a concept related to intelligence. It
looks at how a specific child, at a specific age--usually today, now--performs
intellectually
Ø
The
physical age of the child is compared to the intellectual performance of the
child, based on performance in tests and live assessments by a psychologist.
Ø Mental age varies according to what kind of
intelligence is measured
Ø Mental
development of the children is measured in terms of mental age
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