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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a set of skills for noticing, understanding and managing your own feelings and other people’s feelings. Employers and experts say EQ helps at work by improving relationships, morale and productivity, and the Covid-19 pandemic made these skills more important. A Gallup survey reported that the share…
This 2022 theoretical review examines how self-sabotaging behaviors in EFL/ESL students relate to their self-esteem and academic engagement. It says the impact of these negative behaviors has been mostly overlooked by researchers. The paper defines self-sabotage, gives examples and possible harms, and calls for more research and practical attention from…
This editorial reviews a collection of 10 articles about emotional intelligence (EI). It says EI research has grown a lot over the last two decades, but many different models and tests have created confusion. The editors note links between EI and mental health, stress, and school outcomes in several studies,…
Emotional intelligence (EI) here means real, testable skills for noticing, understanding, using, and managing emotions. Researchers now favor ability-based tests over self-reports because self-reports often look like personality. But ability-based EI has measurement problems and only small, inconsistent links to real-world outcomes. Some studies find tiny or near-zero links with…
Emotional clarity means knowing and naming your own feelings. The paper reviews past research and argues that momentary or "state" emotional clarity — how clearly you understand your feelings in the moment — likely shows a person’s fluid emotional intelligence better than traditional tests or trait self-reports. The authors say…
