Peter Salovey and Jack Mayer, who created the term “emotional intelligence, describe it as “the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional meanings, and to reflectively regulate emotions in ways that promote emotional and intellectual growth.”
Within the EQ-i2.0, emotional intelligence is defined as “a set of emotional and social skills that influence the way we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges, and use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way.”
Emotional Intelligence is the capacity for effectively recognizing and managing your own emotions and the emotion of others to enhance judgement and decision making.
The overall result of well-developed emotional intelligence is healthy emotional and social functioning, which is linked to your well-being (and happiness). There are several facets that work together to produce an effective level of emotional and social functioning and well being.
The model starts with self-perception. Understanding yourself allows you to better express yourself. This leads to healthier interactions with others, which then leads to making good decisions. Making good decisions allows you to manage stress better, which leads to understanding your emotions better and so on. It is important to consider that the EQ-i2.0 model of emotional intelligence is dynamic and:
Each facet relies on and influences the others
Each facet works together to create healthy emotional intelligence – none is more important than the other
The model is circular in nature, there is no start or end point -- just like a wheel on the bicycles pictured above.
Collectively, the EQ-i2.0 model of emotional intelligence produces an overall snapshot of one’s emotional intelligence. Curious about your EQ - Emotional Quotient? I have an assessment tool, that can provide a lens to see how well your capacity is balanced using the above model. A great place to start -- is using the tool below.
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