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Childs and adolescence psychology
IMPORTANCE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE DEPELOPMENT OF CHILDS AND ADOLESCENCE PSYCHOLOGY

“In the leisure time of the school, some child are jumping, running … just playing. A child, Tom, fell and hurts his knee. Tom is very sad, he has knee pain and it seems that no one has notice it. Even Tom is sad all the child follow their game and nobody takecare about that. Suddenly Mary approached to him; she sit in the floor in front Tom looking at the wound and she ask to him: are you ok? Hurts you? He answer that has a little bit of hurt… they sing together the little song to heal …”
In all the history of psychology, the investigators make many kind of researching about perception, cognition, learning, physiology… but what about the emotion, thefeelings? In history the emotion has always been a taboo, there were the social rules and roles in which there was no place to the expression of the feelings.
For many years it was thought that the most important feature of successful people was to have high intellectual capacity (CI) or the cognitive intelligence, that is, academic intelligence. It means that years ago the person who wasbrilliant in mathematics or an expert in latin was regarded as an intelligent one. However, if you do not master the arts of the adequately way to transmit to others your own knowledge will become useless.
The earliest roots of emotional intelligence can be traced to Charles Darwin's work on the importance of emotional expression for survival , even though traditional definitions of intelligenceemphasized cognitive aspects such as memory and problem-solving, several influential researchers in the intelligence field of study had begun to recognize the importance of the non-cognitive aspects. For instance, as early as 1920, E.L. Thorndike used the term social intelligence to describe the skill of understanding and managing other people.
Nonetheless, the term "emotional intelligence" hadappeared in Leuner (1966). Stanley Greenspan (1989) also put forward an EI model, followed by Salovey and Mayer (1990), and Daniel Goleman (1995). The distinction between trait emotional intelligence and ability emotional intelligence was introduced in 2000.
Let's put a very clear example, to understand betters the concept that I want you to transmit:
Jason, a sophomore from Coral SpringsInstitute and undoubted honors candidate, was obsessed with the idea of entering a prestigious university like Harvard. But a qualified teacher had a remarkably high, a note requiring him to throw away all his dreams, so with a knife in his hand, he went to the teacher's office and after a discussion with the teacher, he not hesitate to stab the knife up to the professor´s collarbone.
Judge pleadedJason not guilty because, as stated in the judgment by a team of psychologists and psychiatrists, during the altercation was clearly lost in a clearly psychotic state. The young man said that he thought about suicide but, before committing suicide, he wanted visit the professor, just to let him know that the only cause of his death would be its low rating. However, the teachers version´s was verydifferent, according to him, Jason was so angry that "I think that se came to my office just to attack me"
How can a person with high level of intelligence can commit this kind of stupid behavior?
necessarily the answer is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. until most outstanding people with very high IQ level can be lousy helmsmen of theirs life.
IQ seems thatprovide only 20% of the determinants of success (which means that the remaining 80% depends on another class of factors).
My main interest is focused precisely on these "other characteristics" we have called emotional intelligence, characteristics such as the ability to motivate ourselves, to preserve the effort despite the possible frustrations, to control impulses, to defer gratification, to...