Current concepts of emotional intelligence and its place in the structure of personality

Authors

  • Iryna N. Andreyeva Polotsk State University, Blokhin street, 29, 211440, Novopolotsk, Republic of Belarus

Keywords:

emotional intelligence, intellect, emotions, social intelligence

Abstract

The article analyzes the phenomenon of emotional intelligence and its place in the structure of personality in terms of the different approaches to the study of his (kind of intelligence component of the emotional sphere, metaprotsessualny phenomenon or set of non-cognitive abilities). Summing up the various points of view on the phenomenon of emotional intelligence, the author proposes to consider it as an integral cognitive-personal formation with the most severe cognitive
component, as a set of mental abilities to understand the emotions and management, competencies related to the processing and transformation of emotional information and communicative, emotional, intellectual and regulatory personality properties that contribute to the adaptation of the individual.

Author Biography

  • Iryna N. Andreyeva, Polotsk State University, Blokhin street, 29, 211440, Novopolotsk, Republic of Belarus

    PhD (psychology), docent; associate professor at the department of technology and methods of teaching,
    faculty of physical training education

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Published

2019-01-15

Issue

No. 2 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

Section

Personality Psychology

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Andreyeva, I.N. 2019. Current concepts of emotional intelligence and its place in the structure of personality. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 2 (Jan. 2019), 104–109.