期刊名称:Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN:1330-0288
出版年度:2006
卷号:15
期号:4-5 (84-85)
页码:729-752
出版社:Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要:During the past fifteen years emotional intelligence (EI) raised much interest in psychological research. The name, definition and first research of emotional intelligence are connected with two psychologists, John Mayer and Peter Salovey. They have been slowly and systematically developing models and instruments for EI appraisal. Measurement of individual differences in emotional intelligence is based on two different models, one which relies on a) self-appraisal of abilities, and the other which is based on b) measurement of EI with ability tests. In Croatia, in use are several questionnaires (Tak{i}, 2002b; 2004). The first developed test of EI is MEIS – Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS; Mayer, Caruso and Salovey, 1999), whose shortcomings were improved in the second test battery called MSCEIT (Salovey, Mayer, Caruso and Lopez, 2001). Several different tests from the EI model have been developed in Croatia (Arar, Takšić and Molander, 2000;Kulenović, Balenović and Buško, 2001; Takšić, Harambašić and Velemir, 2004). According to the authors, EI instruments must have a positive relationship with two constructs: empathy and life satisfaction. A lot of research works confirmed a significant relationship between EI and these two constructs, and also with a number of other positive variables and outcomes. There is a strong support of the hypothesis that EI is in close connection with the concept of crystallized intelligence, which has motivated the development of several programs for emotional literacy development around the world. Because of its efforts to find and emphasize positive qualities in individuals, emotional intelligence has been present in positive psychology from the beginning.