Our educational systems focus on honing children’s cognitive skills from the moment they enter the kindergarten classroom. But very little emphasis is placed on educating children in the management of the inner conflicts and unbalanced emotions they bring with them every day to school. As new research sheds light on the development of the brain and concepts such as “emotional intelligence” beco...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine trait and ability emotional intelligence (EI) in children with ADHD. METHOD Forty-one children with ADHD (9-11 years) completed two measures of EI-the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version-short form (EQi:YV-Brief) and the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, Youth Research Version (MSCEIT-YRV). RESULTS Children wi...

This study examined the relationships between self-perceived multiple intelligences and areas of intelligencerelated activities among 592 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students perceived their strengths in interpersonal, intrapersonal, and verbal-linguistic intelligences, and their weaknesses in bodilykinaesthetic and naturalist intelligences. They also indicated that they engaged...

<span lang="EN-US">This research investigated whether the emotional intelligence skills of first- and fourth-grade university students differ according to departments they are enrolled in other factors. In this research, 87-item Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory was used. intrapersonal, interpersonal, adaptability sub-dimension a significant difference found favor those who attended Mat...

Collective intelligence refers to the intelligence that emerges from local interactions among individual people. These local interactions in human collectives can be either direct or indirect. In addition, the interactions of both forms can take place through verbal communication or non-verbal action. As illustrated in Figure 1, following these two binary distinctions, interactions among humans...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by antagonism, negative affectivity, disinhibition, and impairments in interpersonal functioning, including enhanced impulsive aggression. Interpersonal dysfunctions may be related to alterations in endocrine systems. The current study investigated alterations in basal activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) reproduc...

Caldwell, J. M., Ph.D., Purdue University, August 2013. The Attachment-Satisfaction Relationship on Facebook: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict. Major Professor: M. Carole Pistole, Ph.D. Because of the unique interpersonal nature of social networking sites, as well as the vast number of people using them, this study examines how attachment differences and other factors, including social netwo...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of emotional intelligence and mental disorders, with internet addiction in university students. METHODS The method of study was descriptive-pilot one and correlation. Two hundred internet users (male and female) from Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Technology were randomly selected. For data collection Carson's emotional in...

The theory of multiple intelligences, developed by psychologist Howard Gardner in the late 1970's and early 1980's, posits that individuals possess eight or more relatively autonomous intelligences. Individuals draw on these intelligences, individually and corporately, to create products and solve problems that are relevant to the societies in which they live (Gardner, 1999). According to Gardn...