Emotional Intelligence is an intelligence based on emotion, and people who have this capacity are less depressed, healthier, more enjoyable, and have better relationships. It is basically the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth. Some of the contributors who defined emotional intelligence are David Wechsler, Edward Thorndike, Howard Gardner, and Wayne Payne.
We also discussed about the five components of emotional intelligence at work which accentuates self- awareness- the ability to recognize and understand the moods, emotions, and drives of an individual, self-regulations- the ability to control and redirect disruptive impulses and moods, motivation- a passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status, empathy- the ability to understand the emotional makeup of other people, social skill- the ability to find common ground and build rapport.
David Wechsler proposed that “non-intellective” elements were crucial for predicting a person’s ability to succeed in life. Emotional Intelligence is the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment. Edward Thorndike, a psychologist, discovered three classes of emotional intelligence as abstract intelligence, mechanical intelligence, and social intelligence. Abstract intelligence is measured by testing; mechanical intelligence is the ability to understand how the physical world work, and social intelligence is the ability to successfully function in interpersonal situations.
Howard Gardner found seven types of intelligence that include: logical, linguistic, musical, spatial, kinaesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. Intrapersonal intelligence and