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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Emotional Intelligence
A set of abilities and skills in understanding and working with others to achieve individual and shared goals, with particular emphasis on abilities and skills that relate to perceiving affect and understanding thoughts and motives, both of oneself and others. Such abilities and skills can serve the goals either of getting along with others (sociability or affiliation goals) or getting ahead of others (achievement or power goals). Also, such efforts may either be directed in understanding or manipulating others (self-monitoring), or of understanding one's own internal states (private self-consciousness). It is as yet unclear whether the abilities and skills reflecting 'emotional intelligence' require their own category (or categories), as Gardner (1983) proposed, or whether their facets might be classifiable under existing categories of abilities within general taxonomies, such as the one proposed by Carroll (1993).
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