Emotional Intelligence in College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-587
Author(s):  
Achala Menon ◽  
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Preeti Nakhat ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunstan Rajkumar A. ◽  
Ajay Kumar Sharma ◽  
A. Manikandan

The competency of individuals to distinguish their own emotions and those of others is known as emotional intelligence. It is the “ability of an individual to accomplish and control his or her emotions and own the capacity to control the emotions of others as well.” There are four branch models of enthusiastic insight that portrays capacities of different zones of emotional intelligence. First one being the perceiving emotions; it is the expression of emotions in a non-verbal reception; using emotions; use of emotions to facilitate thoughts; understanding emotions: where emotions convey information; managing emotions: emotions are managed and understood to convey information. This study focuses on the intrapersonal emotional intelligence which is the basis for interpersonal emotional intelligence. The aspects viz., understanding emotions, managing emotions, intrinsic motivation building, and zeal are studied. The study attempts to identify the factors of emotions present in the college students so as to help them to build an effective intrapersonal emotional intelligence.


2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Fukunishi ◽  
Thomas N. Wise ◽  
Michael Sheridan ◽  
Satoshi Shimai ◽  
Keiko Otake ◽  
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We examined the association of emotional intelligence and alexithymic characteristics as the personality trait in cohorts of 267 college students and 398 psychiatric outpatients. Score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale were significantly correlated with those on the Emotional Intelligence Scale, suggesting that alexithymic characteristics are related to lower emotional intelligence. In conclusion, these data suggest that emotional intelligence overlaps with alexithymia.


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