Emotional intelligence (EI) is a new concept and a type of intelligence that is described as “the ability to understand exactly, evaluate and represent emotion”. Many studies were evaluated the effect of emotional intelligence on work satisfaction and performance. The results were shown that the employees with high level of emotional intelligence are valuable property for their orga...

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a set of competencies that are essential features of human social life. Although the neural substrates of EI are virtually unknown, it is well established that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a crucial role in human social-emotional behavior. We studied a unique sample of combat veterans from the Vietnam Head Injury Study, which is a prospective, long-ter...

Nowadays, we observe that some organizations are successful and others are not. One of the reasons can be related to the ability of the organization‘s executives. The important factor which has a significant role in the success of an executive is emotion. Emotions are an important part of any person‘s life which seriously affects all aspects of life. Each emotion has a motivating characteristic...

Emotional intelligence (EI) relates to one's ability to recognize and understand emotional information and then, to use it for planning and self-management. Given evidence of abnormalities of emotional processing in impulsively aggressive individuals, we hypothesized that EI would be reduced in subjects with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED: n = 43) compared with healthy (n = 44) and psychi...

Emotional intelligence was hypothesized to be a factor in successful life adjustment, among them the successful achievement of a well-balanced life with little interference between work and family and leisure. Data from a sample of 153 respondents who were roughly representative of the population were obtained, including measurement of emotional intelligence, life/work balance and other indices...

Measures of emotional intelligence (EI) have been linked to a variety of important outcome variables, but there has been little empirical research examining the relationship between EI measures and specific cognitive-emotional processes. This study examined the relationship between the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and the Emotional Stroop. Results indicated that the...

Adopting a primary prevention perspective, this study examines competencies with the potential to enhance well-being and performance among future workers. More specifically, the contributions of ability-based and trait models of emotional intelligence (EI), assessed through well-established measures, to indices of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being were examined for a sample of 157 Italian high ...