In other words, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. This is the dark side of emotional intelligence: using one's knowledge of emotions to strategically achieve self-serving goals.
People with lower emotional intelligence might find it harder to accurately identify emotions, recognize how other people feel, or express and honor emotional needs. It's true that these tendencies could create problems within relationships. Having lower emotional intelligence doesn't make you a bad person, though.
For example, EQ is positively correlated with leadership, job performance, job satisfaction, happiness, and well-being (both physical and emotional). Moreover, EQ is negatively correlated with counterproductive work behaviors, psychopathy, and stress proclivity.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. The good news is that highly sensitive people aren't more or less emotionally intelligent than others.
Some people are born with a naturally high Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and some have a naturally high IQ. While you cannot improve a person's IQ, fortunately, you can learn the skills to improve your EQ.
People with more emotional intelligence are happier; they are more perceptive and sensitive to others; more rewarding and more fun; and more flexible, writes Adrian Furnham.
The finding of the study showed that introvert, intuition, feeling and judging (INFJ) personality type were more emotionally intelligent than the extrovert, sensing, thinking and perceiving (ESTP) personality type.
One frequent criticism of EI boils down to the terminology. Critics argue that EI isn't really intelligence in the same way that someone with a high IQ might be proficient at processing information or solving problems.
Some have also criticized the idea that emotional intelligence is an actual form of intelligence, rather than a set of behaviours related to general intelligence and applied to the domain of emotions. To this end, EI can be considered more as a set of skills, than actual intelligence.
Unlike IQ, EQ is thought to be more fluid and can change over time (Bradberry 2021). Also unlike IQ, EQ is not typically tested in the same way. While typically people with high IQ's will also have a high EQ, the two work independently from one another.
An emotionally intelligent person typically possess 4 key traits that sets them apart. These traits are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. Unlike your IQ, your emotional intelligence is extremely malleable.
What does EI look like? People who have high emotional intelligence are more self-aware and socially aware. They are aware of their emotions as well as the emotions of the people around them. They can read people's faces and actions, and then determine emotions efficiently and accurately.
The skills progress to the last item, managing emotions, which is considered the highest level of emotional intelligence. This involves the ability to manage your emotions and the emotions of others.
The cliche that intelligent people are emotionally immature may be more false than true because research does show that emotional intelligence is associated with academic achievement and academic achievement is an indication of intelligence.
Managing personal relationships can be enhanced through emotional intelligence. Evidence suggests that people with higher levels of emotional intelligence lead more successful careers and nurture better relationships than those with low emotional intelligence.
A high EQ helps you to build relationships, reduce team stress, defuse conflict and improve job satisfaction. Ultimately, a high EI means having the potential to increase team productivity and staff retention.
A recent study out of the University of California, Berkeley shows that our EQ generally rises steadily throughout our working lives, peaking at the mature age of 60.
Remember, EQ is the ability to identify and understand emotions. Research done by Travis Bradberry, who is the author of “Emotional Intelligence 2.0,” suggests that only about 36% of people have this ability.
A traditional IQ test assesses cognitive abilities through vocabulary, reading comprehension and retention, reasoning and math skills. Meanwhile, EQ assessments test different aspects of emotional intelligence: emotional literacy, empathy, intrinsic motivation and how we navigate emotions.
Being able to say no when you need to. Being able to share your feelings with others. Being able to solve problems in ways that work for everyone. Having empathy for other people.
Some narcissists have supreme confidence in themselves, and also have the emotional intelligence — the ability to read people and to act accordingly — to nurture lasting allies. At the extreme of both, such a person could be a presidential candidate or a manipulative sociopath — or both.