PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

• Adolescence is a tumultuous stage in terms of physical, cognitive, psychological, and social adjustments that teenagers go through.
• Emotional intelligence enhances a young person's ability to cope with the challenges during this transition stage.
• A high IQ may not necessarily be followed by skill in interpersonal relations.
• Emotional intelligence is an indispensable factor in success in life.
• By increasing young people's emotional quotient, they are able to cope better with changes, assist other people to become efficient, competent, and eventually successful in life.
• Emotional intelligence is a positive trait and treasured characteristic that a teenager can have.
• Emotional intelligence can be enhanced by attending soft skills training, reading good books, and receiving guidance from parents and school authorities.
• American psychologist John Mayer believes that criterion-report (that is, ability testing) is the only adequate method to employ in measuring emotional intelligence.
• Reuven Bar-On's EQ-i is a self-assessment survey used to gauge competencies such as awareness, stress tolerance, problem solving, and even happiness.
• Bar-On stresses that "emotional intelligence is an array of noncognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one's ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures."
• Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS) is a survey to test one's abilities.
• Test-takers in the MEIS are asked to execute tasks that can evaluate their skills to sense, determine, interpret, and use emotions.
• Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire (SASQ) measures the levels of positivism and negativism of the individual.
• Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) outlines the ratings of individuals on various emotional competencies as assessed by people who know them.
• The Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) is based on an older psychological tool called the Self-Assessment Questionnaire.
• Emotional intelligence, as defined by psychologist Daniel Goleman, is a master aptitude that profoundly affects all other abilities, either facilitating or interfering with them.
• Emotional intelligence, as described by leading researchers on emotions Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.
• Emotional intelligence is essential for people to express and control their emotions, recognize, decipher, and react to the feelings of other people, and interconnect with each other through shared emotions.
• Emotional intelligence covers several features and proficiencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skills.
• Emotional quotient (EQ) measures the emotional intelligence of a person.
• In the 1930s, American psychologist Edward Thorndike presented the notion of "social intelligence" as one's capacity to deal well with other individuals.
• In the 1940s, David Wechsler, a leading American psychologist, stated that the emotional aspects of intelligence may be indispensable to one's success in life.
• In the 1950s, ways by which individuals can develop emotional stamina were communicated by humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow.
• In 1975, Howard Gardner, an American developmental psychologist, published The Shattered Mind, which presented the idea of multiple intelligence.
• In 1985, Wayne Payne initiated the use of the phrase "emotional intelligence" in his doctoral work titled "A Study of Emotion: Developing Emotional Intelligence; Self-Integration; Relating to Fear, Pain and Desire (Theory, structure of reality, problem solving, contraction/expansion, tuning in/coming out/letting go)."
• The phrase "emotional quotient" was thought to have first appeared in an article published in Mensa Magazine authored by Keith Beasley.
• Israeli psychologist Reuven Bar-On claims to have utilized the phrase "emotional intelligence" in his unpublished graduate thesis.
• In 1990, a breakthrough article titled "Emotional Intelligence" was launched by Peter Salovey and John Mayer, who are both psychologists.
• In 1995, Daniel Goleman propagated the notion of emotional intelligence in his masterpiece Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.