A simple definition of Emotional Intelligence is “Knowing what feels good, what feels bad, and how to get from bad to good”.
A more formal academic definition is:
“The emotional awareness and emotional management skills which provide the ability to balance emotion and reason so as to maximize long-term happiness. It is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions”.
“Emotional Intelligence refers to an ability to recognize the meanings of emotions, and to reason and problem solve on the basis of them,” and it involves “the capacity to perceive emotions, assimilate emotion-related feelings, understand the information of those emotions, and manage them.”
The definition of Emotional Intelligence as proposed by Mayer, Salovey
and their recent colleague David Caruso (Referred to as MSC).
“Emotional Intelligence is a true form of intelligence having the ability to process emotional information, particularly as it involves the perception, assimilation, understanding, and management of emotion.”
Thus, Emotional Intelligence is a set of skills hypothesized to contribute to the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and the use of feelings to motivate, plan and achieve in one’s life.
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