INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION

This article takes a look at current research on emotional intelligence. This article is focused on the four branches model of Mayer and Salovey (1997), which characterizes emotional intelligence as a set of four interrelated abilities: perceiving, using, understanding and managing emotions.

Salovey and Mayer proposed a model of emotional intelligence in order to organize the study of individual differences in abilities related to emotions. This model motivated the creation of the first tests of emotional intelligence based on skills.

Positive emotions broaden the repertoire of a person's thoughts, facilitating problem solving.

In 2002, Mayer, Salovey and Caruso created the MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test). This test lasts about 40 minutes and can be written or in computer. It classifies a person's skills in the four branches of emotional intelligence. Then, it gives a score for each of the four branches, plus an overall score.

(example in Figure 1).

The test MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) authors :

CARUSO, David : He is a management psychologist

SALOVEY, Petter: He is an American social psychologist

 MAYER, John : He is a personality psychologist     

AUTHORS: Peter Salovey and Daisy Grewal

Link: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/14/6/281.short

PERSONAL OPINION

From our point of view, we believe that emotional education is a very important aspect for the children’s development, both at school and at home. Therefore, we believe that the school it would be interesting to give the same importance to the contents emotions.

Therefore, we think that the school should give the same importance for the contents and for the emotions

We also agree with the following ideas that appear in the text: "Positive emotions broaden the repertoire of a person's thoughts, facilitating problem solving". For example: Laia is a bit discouraged because she has to do a Catalan exam and she has failed all the Catalan exams she has done since the beginning of the course.

Laia is discouraged when she has to study Catalan, therefore this won’t allow her to study properly and to pass the exam.

Finally, we fully agree with the tests created by the three authors because we think they permit you to know and to investigate about the emotional

state of each individual.