CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is emotional intelligence or EQ? Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -Emotional intelligence can best be described as the ability to monitor one’s own and other people’s emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Salovey and Mayer defined emotional intelligence as a “subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own emotions and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s own thinking and actions” (Bechtoldt, 2008).

Detailed explanation-4: -Anyone trying to come up to speed on emotional intelligence would have a pretty easy time of it since the concept is remarkably recent, and its application to business newer still. The term was coined in 1990 in a research paper by two psychology professors, John D. Mayer of UNH and Peter Salovey of Yale.

Detailed explanation-5: -Salovey and Mayer have pinpointed four branches of emotional intelligence. These are perceiving emotion, reasoning with emotion, understanding emotions and managing emotions.