soc sci lesson 8

• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)


  Emotional awareness and emotional management skills which provide the ability to balance emotion and reason. To maximize our long-term happiness
• Feelings


  The experience of pleasantness or unpleasantness during emotional experience
• Emotion


  A feeling and the corresponding thoughts, psychological and biological states with the tendency to act on it
• Intensity of emotion


  • Reaction is sudden, fast, and swift, and can change from one state of emotion to the next
  • One at a time
• Emotion differentiation


  1. Recognition

  2. Assessment

  3. Meta-evaluation

  4. Regulation
• Emotion differentiation - Recognition

  Focus on the current emotion. Be aware or be conscious of such emotion
• Emotion differentiation - Assessment

  • Connect the detected emotion to the current task
  • Check distinguishing factors and identify what triggers such emotion
• Emotion differentiation - Meta-evaluation


  Look into your initial assessment of the emotion that you previously identified
• Emotion differentiation - Regulation


  What are you going to do with the emotion when it is recognized
• Managing emotion through Emotional Intelligence

  • Self-awareness
  • Managing emotion
  • Motivating the self
  • Empathy
  • Social skills
• Self-awareness


  Refers to the first and basic skill that the moment an emotion is felt, you are able to identify it properly
• Managing emotion


  • Refers to regulating emotion and making it fit a particular circumstance
  • Respond appropriately; Managing emotion is an art
• Motivating the self


  An emotionally intelligent person is able to "propel himself/herself to move on with life despite his/her circumstances
• Empathy


  • Ability to sense the feelings or emotions of others without them saying anything to you
  • "being able to put yourself in the shoes of the other person"
• Social skills


  Ability to manage emotions to others
• Experiencing great depths of emotion enables you to relate with those who may be undergoing similar emotional experiences
• You will waste a lot of time if you fight your emotion
• Your emotion is very much part of you
• If you know yourself, you'll find it easier to make decisions
• It is difficult to be empathetic if you label or judge them
• We have a quick- to –criticize society
• We were taught how to think and memorize, not to feel
• Feedback


  • Giving
  • Receiving
• Feedback


  Verbal, non-verbal, written expressions
• Concept of Emotional Intelligence guides you first and foremost, in identifying positive and negative emotions when they happen
• 80 – 90 percent of our emotions are not expressed and are not properly stated