OBJECTIVE ADHD adults exhibit deficits in emotion recognition, regulation, and expression. Emotional intelligence (EI) correlates with better life performance and is considered a skill that can be learned and developed. The aim of this study was to assess EI development as ability in ADHD adults, considering the effect of comorbid psychiatric disorders and previous diagnosis of ADHD. METHOD P...

PURPOSE To discuss the development, pilot testing, and analysis of a 34-item semantic differential instrument for measuring medical school applicants' emotional intelligence (the EI instrument). METHOD The authors analyzed data from the admission interviews of 147 1997 applicants to a six-year BS/MD program that is composed of three consortium universities. They compared the applicants' score...

Intuitively, “emotional intelligence” (EI) may seem like necessary condition for productive leader-member relations or effective leadership, as many writers have suggested. I show that this link does not hold up to empirical scrutiny when using strong methodological tests. I reanalyze secondary data and show that both trait (EQi and WLEIS) and ability (MSCEIT) models of EI are linearly dependen...

background:   in the last decade, researchers have found that, each person’s success in education, either in school or in university, is not only related with his/her intelligence quotient, but today emotional intelligence is considered as another forecaster of people prosperities in their lives .the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical ...

The “emotional intelligence” construct has been the focus of enormous scrutiny over the past 20 years (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). Much of this interest is based on the so-called “big idea” that first brought widespread attention to it—an idea popularized by Goleman’s best-selling book Emotional Intelligence (1995), in which he claimed that emotional intelligence (EI) can matter more than the intel...

This study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and self-efficacy in 71 Iranian EFL teachers in private language institutes. The participants’ EI and self-efficacy were rated through questionnaires. They were also administered a demographic sheet. The findings revealed that EFL teachers’ EI was significantly and positively correlated with their self-efficacy, and it cou...

Objective: New nurses may be vulnerable to bullying as they often lack confidence or do not have the skills or maturity to communicate their needs or those of their patients. Increasing emotional intelligence particularly in at-risk nursing students may be one way to foster resiliency. This exploratory cross sectional study aimed to exam the overall level and specific components of emotional in...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considered to be a very powerful tool to students to manage relationships of Emotional Intelligence & Self Esteem. Self esteem as an affective phenomenon which is considered as a feeling or emotions. This brings us to the conclusion that a child’s self esteem should, maintain a balance between the low and high self esteem. Adolescent means the period of life from ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the emotional intelligence (EI) and examine the corresponding demographic characteristics of front-line Nurse Managers in acute care settings. METHODS This quantitative descriptive study was conducted in eight acute care hospitals in the Midwestern United States. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) was used to measure t...