Do you know your EIQ – Emotional Intelligence Quotient ?

A high EQ helps individuals to communicate better, reduce their anxiety and stress, defuse conflicts, improve relationships, empathize with others, and effectively overcome life’s challenges. Our emotional intelligence affects the quality of our lives because it influences our behavior and relationships

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Rekha Sahay

EIQ is a type of intelligence that involves the ability to process emotional information and use it in reasoning and other cognitive activities – (Dictionary.APA.org, 2018). The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. Emotional Intelligence Skills are – Listing to others, Understanding others’ perspectives, Facilitating thought, Self-Management Activity

Check your EQ –Quiz Yourself: Do You Lead with Emotional Intelligence?

To Improve EQ – lots Books on Emotional Intelligence Skills are available. The Power of Emotional Intelligence – No of TED talks are available such as TEDx talk by Travis Bradberry, who gives some great examples to answer the question “What are Emotional Intelligence skills?”

Courtesy – PositivePsychologyProgram and wikipedia

16 thoughts on “Do you know your EIQ – Emotional Intelligence Quotient ?”

  6. They say Emotional Intelligence has two skills. Personal Competence and Social Competence. While the former deals with self awareness and self management, the latter deals with social awareness and relationship management.
    In other words, how are you and how are you with other people.

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    1. yes Suman, you are right.
      Actually earlier only concept of IQ was there. But as you know IQ researchers have explained that, IQ remain relatively stable over the lifespan.
      then the concept of EQ – how are you with other people / social skill, (it can be learned or developed)
      and the concept SQ came up.
      thanks for your valuable views.

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    1. To study human behaviour is quit couplex as its result of environment and hereditary both.
      Psychology is comparatively a new and growing science. everyday new researches are coming up with new findings. So your viewpoint is appreciable.

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