The Role of Students’ Emotional Intelligence: Empirical Evidence

Emotional intelligence (EI) has attracted great interest in the field of education as a vehicle to improve the socioemotional development of students. The first publications that appeared made a great number of claims about the positive influence of emotional intelligence in the classroom. The only...

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Autores: Extremera Pacheco, Natalio, Fernández-Berrocal, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA
Repositorio:Revista Electrónica de Investigacion Educativa
Idioma:español
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.redie.uabc.mx:article/105
Acceso en línea:https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/105
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Emotional intelligence
emotional development
student development.
Inteligencia emocional
desarrollo emocional
desarrollo del estudiante.
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Sumario:Emotional intelligence (EI) has attracted great interest in the field of education as a vehicle to improve the socioemotional development of students. The first publications that appeared made a great number of claims about the positive influence of emotional intelligence in the classroom. The only problem was that not all these claims were coupled with empirical research to show, on the one hand, the predictive level of EI, and on the other hand, the actual role of EI in different areas of life. It has been only recently that the effect of a high level of EI exercises on people has been investigated. The object of this article is to examine the most relevant empirical research done within the educational setting, in order to collect the existing evidence for the influence of EI, evaluated by different instruments, in the personal, social and scholastic functioning of students.