There are many studies about the values and ways to develop a child’s understanding of emotions. This led to the design of a number of programs aimed at developing an understanding of emotions. Such programs have different content, often contradictory in comparison with each other. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to identify the possibilities and limitations of the content of programs aimed at developing an understanding of emotions. The method in this study was a comparative analysis of programs. The programs were compared using the components of understanding emotions highlighted in the F. model. Pons and P.L. Harris. Eight educational programs for developing preschoolers’ understanding of emotions presented in peer-reviewed publications were selected. As a result of the conducted research, the possibilities of the content of programs based on various approaches to the child’s understanding of emotion were highlighted. The limitations of programs determined by such approaches were also highlighted. In addition, the features of the topic of understanding emotions were highlighted, which make it possible to deepen the content of programs when designing.
Keyword(s) : emotional intelligence
Identifying the Level of Medical Students’ Emotional Intelligence to Determine the Need for Improvement of the Educational Process
The study is aimed at assessing the level of EI of medical students. We used the literature analysis’ method, the Lusin’s questionnaire, mathematical processing of research results, comparative analysis, synthesis and generalization. The study involved 324 students of SSMU named after V.I. Razumovsky: 242 women and 82 men. The average age of participants was 20 years.
We found that the respondents generally have an average level of emotional intelligence development, which is sufficient to perform professional tasks. However, there is a disproportion in the scores on the emotion management scale, dominated by very low and low scores. With such indicators for students, the risk of emotional burnout increases. It was also revealed that students with higher grades had poorer control over expression. In addition, it was found that men have a better-developed skill of understanding and managing their own emotions, as well as control of expression, which we associate with the different hormonal background and existing gender attitudes in society about the rules for raising children.
The novelty of this study lies in the selection and description of the optimal ways to improve the medical educational process, which are based on the discovered level of EI development among students. The obtained results can be used to adapt the existing medical education system to the tasks of forming medical workers with developed emotional intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence Levels of IIT Students in India
Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been identified as a key competence that helps people to relate
with one another easily. As such, EI coupled with IQ makes one a star performer at the workplace.
Therefore, students need to possess both EI and IQ. For this reason, a descriptive study was
conducted to assess the EI levels of IIT students at IIT (ISM)-Dhanbad, India. The analysis was
done in two folds; first, to assess the EI levels of the participants. Secondly, to compare the EI
levels of the participants using demographic variables. The purposive sampling technique was
used to sample 200 engineering students from various engineering departments. The study
results unveiled that students from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad were somewhat emotionally intelligent.
Also, when the demographic variables were assessed, it was revealed that gender and age were
not statistically significant on EI which means that gender and age does not affect a person’s EI.
Albeit, in this study, work experience and family income were statistically significant on EI which
implied that a person’s work experience and family income could affect their EI. When the EI
levels of these participants are developed and improved, they will thrive and succeed both at the
workplace, college and in life as a whole as their EI levels are significantly high.
Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Professional Activity of Future Naval Officers
There is a need to determine a wider range of factors to anticipate officer behavior in situations of
complex interpersonal interaction together with guidelines for self-knowledge and self-development
of professional competencies. This study examines the emotional intelligence of future naval officers
during probation on ships as a predictor of their success in military service. The article shows that
it is possible to predict the results of internships of cadets of a military university on ships through
the partial elements and the overall characteristic of their emotional intelligence. One hundred
cadets were examined using the N. Hall methodology “Diagnosis of emotional intelligence (Fetiskin,
Kozlova and Manuylova variant), the “Progressive Matrices” test by J. Raven, and expert evaluations
of the results of professional internships. The study evaluated the reliability of the distribution of
indicators of the components of emotional intelligence “Emotional awareness”, “Managing your
emotions”, “Self-motivation”, “Empathy” and “Recognizing the emotions of other people” and
correlation analysis of the relationship of the integral level of emotional and non-verbal intelligence
with the success of the training of future officers on ships. It concludes that psychological predictors
of emotional intelligence and its partial elements predicts the results of professional activity due to
self-regulation, self-control, and management of the emotional states of naval officers with fairly
high reliability. The predictors identified contribute to the development of targeted corrective and
preventive programs for the development of emotional intelligence among naval university cadets.