Mind Body Health

In where I live, emotional intelligence became a trend since 8 years ago. Many people began to talk about emotional intelligence importance to be successful in life. At that time, I don’t have any idea about emotional intelligence definition. The concept that grasped by my mind was that emotional intelligence is the intelligence to tackle emotional problems caused by several difficult or tense situation.

However, it becomes clear to me right now that emotional intelligence definition is one’s ability to understand and manage their own emotion, and to understand other people emotion and manage their relationship by managing their emotion.

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence clearly describes four main Emotional Intelligence construct as :

1. Self-awareness — the ability to read one’s emotions and recognize their impact while using gut feelings to guide decisions.
2. Self-management — involves controlling one’s emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances.
3. Social awareness — the ability to sense, understand, and react to others’ emotions while comprehending social networks.
4. Relationship management — the ability to inspire, influence, and develop others while managing conflict.

This Emotional Intelligence constructs by Daniel Goleman were commonly used as constructs to describe Emotional Intelligence by several Emotional Intelligence Books that was published, at least the one that I read

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