Essay Plan Assessment: Exploring Emotional Intelligence

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Essay Plan Assessment
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Essay Question: What is emotional intelligence how is it measured what advantages does it
give, and can we improve it?
INTRODUCTION
Opening
People who are having high degree of emotional intelligence are able to know themselves and
other in better way and having sense of emotional needs.
Importance of the topic
Emotional intelligence is considered as a bridge between simple lives to happy life through
applying various frameworks such as standard of intelligence to emotional response that are
directly related with emotions (Petrides, et. al., 2016).
Outline the aspects of the topic that will be included in the essay-in the same order that
they will be presented in the essay:
Emotional intelligence can be understand as the essential skills in the leadership that focus on
five elements self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills and self-awareness. The
advantages of emotional intelligence is that it lead to great successful career, develop stronger
personal relationship, increases confidence and optimism and better health (Mayer, et. al.,
2016).
Body: Part 1. Defining the system or model
using some of the main theories or scholars
1-2 selected quotations with citations.
One of these quotes should be
paraphrased in essay
Emotional intelligence can be explained as the
capacity of one person for perceiving, regulating Emotional
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and process the other emotional information
accurately and effectively. intelligenc
e” has
become a
major topic
of interest
in scientific
circles as
well
as in the
lay public
since the
publication
of a
bestseller
by the
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same
name
Emotional
intelligenc
e” has
become a
major topic
of interest
in scientific
circles as
well
as in the
lay public
since the
publication
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of a
bestseller
by the
same
name
“The capacity to reason about emotions
and of emotions to enhance thinking”
Emotional intelligence enables the
potential intelligence that is imposed by
intelligence to analyse how to use it in
right manner, understanding the effective
emotions and ability to recognise (Dacre
Pool & Qualter, 2012).
Body: Part 2. Measuring the system or model
including some of the main tests
1-2 selected quotations with citations.
One of these quotes should be
paraphrased in essay
Trait model states that the constellation of
emotional self-perception is located at the lower
level of the personality. This may include
understanding the perception of the other
emotions and using personality framework for
analysing emotional intelligence (Sánchez-
“The reliabilities of these performance
based scales in almost every instance are
far from optimal, from the perspective of
making valid inferences of scientific
nature”
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Álvarez, et. al., 2015). Emotional intelligence is important for
every performance based scales and also
to make inferences of scientific nature
(Petrides & Furnham, 2001).
Body: Part 3. Advantages of the system or
model with regards to career or academic
achievement
Evidence 1-2 selected quotations with
citations. One of these quotes should be
paraphrased in essay
The emotional intelligence is necessary in
individual life for motivating towards work,
provide common vision, making changes and
innovation, effective communication channel and
enhance leadership skills.
“Emotional intelligence has become a
major topic of interest in scientific circles
as well as in the lay public since the
publication of a bestseller by the same
name”
Emotional intelligence is important for
both the public point of view and scientific
point of view of a seller (Bar-On, 2005).
Body: Part 4. Improving personality traits or
emotional intelligence
Evidence: 1-2 selected quotations with
citations. One of these quotes should be
paraphrased in essay
Emotional intelligence can be enhanced through
self-awareness, self-management, better
relationship management and Social awareness.
“Emotional intelligence continues to
receive a substantial amount of attention
from researchers who argue that it is an
important predictor of health, wellbeing
and in particular, work-related outcomes”.
Modification in new strategies will enable
in dealing with the challenges, recruitment
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of networks, and change in strength to
such connections (Dacre Pool & Qualter,
2012).
Conclusion (do not include any evidence or
citations)
Emotional intelligence is the process that helps in
building consensus and support for
accomplishing the organisational goals.
Emotional intelligence can be improved through
Motivating and inspiring itself.
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Reference list
 Bar-On, R., 2005.‘The Bar-On model of emotional-social intelligence.’ In P. Fernández-
Berrocal and N. Extremera (Guest Editors), Special Issue on Emotional Intelligence.
Psicothema.
 Dacre Pool, L., & Qualter, P., 2012. Improving emotional intelligence and emotional self-
efficacy through a teaching intervention for university students. Learning and Individual
Differences.
 Mayer, J.D., Caruso, D.R. and Salovey, P., 2016. The ability model of emotional
intelligence: Principles and updates. Emotion Review, 8(4), pp.290-300.
 Petrides, K & Furnham, A., 2001. "Trait Emotional Intelligence: Psychometric
Investigation with Reference to Established Trait Taxonomies", European Journal of
Personality, pp. 425–448.
 Petrides, K.V., Mikolajczak, M., Mavroveli, S., Sanchez-Ruiz, M.J., Furnham, A. and
Pérez-González, J.C., 2016. Developments in trait emotional intelligence
research. Emotion Review, 8(4), pp.335-341.
 Sánchez-Álvarez, N., Extremera, N. and Fernández-Berrocal, P., 2015. The relation
between emotional intelligence and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic
investigation. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(3), pp.276-285.
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