According to (Mayer, 2009), emotional intelligence is the capacity to reason about emotions and emotional information, and of emotions to enhance thought.
Characteristic of Person with High Emotional Intelligence
- Could solve a variety of emotion-related problems accurately and quickly.
- Know how to use emotional episodes in their lives to promote specific types of thinking.
- Know, for example, that sadness promotes analytical thought and so they may prefer to analyze things when they are in a sad mood (given the choice).
- Understand the meanings that emotions convey
- Know that angry people can be dangerous, that happiness means that someone wants to join with others, and that some sad people may prefer to be alone.
- Know how to manage their own and others' emotions.
- They understand that, when happy, a person will be more likely to accept an invitation to a social gathering than when sad or afraid.
According to (Mayer, 2009), who hold PhD in personality analyst, he implied that many psychologist tend to employ a particular kind of test when measuring intelligence.
The test approach goes by several different names.
- ability testing
- performance testing
- criterion-report testing
For example, on an intelligence test, a test item might ask what is 70 plus 70. The answer is evaluated according to the correct criterion: an answer of 140.
He added, there is one type of question that they planned asked test-takers to recognize the emotions shown in a picture of a person.For instance, to know that sadness might be indicated by a frown. Another kind of question asked people how emotional reactions unfold.
For example:
George was sad, and an hour later, he felt guilty. What happened in-between? (Choose one):
A. George accompanied a neighbor to a medical appointment to help out the neighbor.
B. George lacked the energy to call his mother, and missed calling her on her birthday.
High EI test-takers recognize that alternative B, the missed birthday phone call, would better account for George's change in mood from sadness to guilt.
The ability to answer such questions correctly seems to improve as children grow older. In addition, such questions cohere as a group: People who do well at some items tend to do well on others as well. For these reasons and others, EI is now believed to exist and is considered by many to be an established intelligence.
George was sad, and an hour later, he felt guilty. What happened in-between? (Choose one):
A. George accompanied a neighbor to a medical appointment to help out the neighbor.
B. George lacked the energy to call his mother, and missed calling her on her birthday.
High EI test-takers recognize that alternative B, the missed birthday phone call, would better account for George's change in mood from sadness to guilt.
The ability to answer such questions correctly seems to improve as children grow older. In addition, such questions cohere as a group: People who do well at some items tend to do well on others as well. For these reasons and others, EI is now believed to exist and is considered by many to be an established intelligence.
