摘要：Emotional iteligence is a relatively new concept and litle rescarch to date has examined age dfferences. In order to examine developmental pattemns in emotional itelligence(ED,the Emotional Inelligence Test for Children(EITC,Lee,2003) was administered to 367 children,4- to 8-years of age. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Variance(MANOVA) and post hoc univariate analyses of variables. Results showed signifcant differences by age in total and sub-total scores of EITC. When the means of test scores were presented grahically as developmental curves,EI totals and sub scores showed the increases in EI that ccurred with increased maturity. Aditional research is needed to verify developmental models of EI and to explore which factors have an efect on EI..
关键词：emotional intelligence; developmental tendency; emotional intelligence test for children
