Emotional Intelligence: Overview, Applicability and Value - Q3
Emotional Intelligence: Overview, Applicability and Value - Q3
Emotional Intelligence: Overview, Applicability and Value - Q3
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Research Support For Increasing / Developing EI Over Time<br />
� EI competencies are driven by cognitive reasoning…emotional competencies<br />
touch our emotional circuitry, <strong>and</strong> as such, link into the social <strong>and</strong> emotional<br />
learning we have done in our past. To alter in any way our behaviors that we<br />
have built up through interaction, we must aim our intervention at the level of<br />
cognitions we have stored (Increasing team emotional intelligence through<br />
process – Moriarity, Buckley 2003).<br />
� EI continues to develop with age <strong>and</strong> therefore can be learned (BarOn, 1997)<br />
� There is a positive correlation between EI <strong>and</strong> age (Goleman, 1998).<br />
� It is possible to enhance the overall level of EI by planned <strong>and</strong> sustained<br />
personal development. Much of this development will result from reflecting on<br />
the individual’s behaviors which tend to be exhibited in differing situations,<br />
consciously practicing different behaviors <strong>and</strong> actively seeking feedback on the<br />
way in which others interpret <strong>and</strong> respond to these new behaviors (Dulewicz,<br />
Higgs 1999 “Can emotional intelligence be measured <strong>and</strong> developed?”).<br />
� 52 of 60 participant’s scores compared on the EQ-i after six months of training<br />
were found to increase significantly – control group scores for EI remained<br />
constant (“<strong>Emotional</strong> intelligence training <strong>and</strong> its implication for stress, health<br />
<strong>and</strong> performance” Slaski & Cartwright, 2003).<br />
47 **DRAFT**
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