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Emotional Intelligence

This document discusses emotional intelligence and managing emotions. It defines emotional intelligence as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions. It then explains Plutchik's wheel of emotions theory, which identifies eight primary emotions (joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, trust, anticipation, surprise) and how they vary in intensity. The document contrasts positive emotions like joy with negative emotions like sadness or fear. It emphasizes the importance for teenagers to understand and properly manage their emotions, and provides tips for doing so, like understanding the source of one's emotions before reacting.

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Emotional Intelligence

This document discusses emotional intelligence and managing emotions. It defines emotional intelligence as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions. It then explains Plutchik's wheel of emotions theory, which identifies eight primary emotions (joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, trust, anticipation, surprise) and how they vary in intensity. The document contrasts positive emotions like joy with negative emotions like sadness or fear. It emphasizes the importance for teenagers to understand and properly manage their emotions, and provides tips for doing so, like understanding the source of one's emotions before reacting.

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EMOTIONAL

INTELLIGEN
CE

Improving Emotional Intelligence


ABOUT THE LESSON
This lesson tackles emotions and its importance
in social interactions. After the lesson, you are
expected to describe and differentiate various
emotions, explain techniques on how to
promote positive emotions and demonstrate
ways on how to manage emotions.
EXPLORE
The term emotion comes from the Latin verb “movare” which
means to stir up, agitate, upset or move. When a person
experiences an emotion, he/she feels an agitation or a stirred
up state of your entire being. We have to realize that we are
not in our normal selves when we are angry, happy or sad that
is why we often express the words: ‘losing one’s cool”, “out of
his mind/head” when a person is under emotional strain.
What then is Emotional Intelligence? according to Salovey and
Mayer (1990), Emotional intelligence is the “subset of social
intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and
others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and
to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions”. It is
essential that people are able to express and control their
emotions and it is equally important that they are able to
recognize, decipher, and react to the feelings of other people.
THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS

A psychologist by the name of Robert Plutchik


introduced the wheel of emotions theory that could
help us understand better the various aspects of
emotions.
PLUTCHIK STATED THAT THE STRENGTH OF EMOTIONS VARIES
FROM MILD TO INTENSE. THIS INTENSITY OF EMOTIONS ALSO
CORRESPONDS TO THE DEGREE BY WHICH AN EMOTION
AFFECTS ONE’S BEHAVIORS.

PLUTCHIK ALSO BELIEVED THAT THERE ARE JUST EIGHT


PRIMARY EMOTIONS. BELOW ARE THE PRIMARY TYPES OF
EMOTION:

1. Joy – feeling of happiness (gladness, delight euphoria)


2. Sadness – feeling of being unhappy or gloomy (grief, sorrow, melancholy)
3. Fear – feeling of being scared, frightened or anxious ( distress, horror, fright)
4. Anger – feeling of being mad, irritated or annoyed
5. Disgust – this is what we feel when something is wrong, erroneous or dirty.
6. Trust – positive emotion which also means confidence or belief.
7. Anticipation – looking forward to something good or positive to happen
8. Surprise – this what we feel when something unexpected happens
1. JOY

Feeling of
happiness
(gladness, delight
euphoria)
2. SADNESS

Feeling of being
unhappy or gloomy
(grief, sorrow,
melancholy)
3. FEAR

Feeling of being
scared, frightened or
anxious ( distress,
horror, fright)
4. ANGER

Feeling of being
mad, irritated or
annoyed
5. DISGUST

This is what we feel when


something is wrong,
erroneous or dirty.
6. TRUST

Positive emotion
which also means
confidence or belief.
7. ANTICIPATION

looking forward to something


good or positive to happen
8. SURPRISE

This what we feel when


something unexpected happens
Each of these emotions has a corresponding opposite as shown in
the figure of the wheel of emotions. Emotions which are nearer to
the core are the more intense ones and the intensity of emotions
decreases as one moves outward of the core.
POSITIVE VS NEGATIVE
EMOTIONS

Positive emotions can be a source of motivation and enjoyment. These are


usually expressed through words like shouting for joy, through facial expression
such as smiling and through actions like jumping or hugging a person.

Negative emotions may cause sleep disturbances, restlessness, loss of appetite,


inefficiency and moodiness. Some people express their negative emotions by
attacking the source of frustration, kicking chairs, weeping and cursing
As we grow old, we can learn how to modify, hide or replace our
emotions. This is very true especially for negative feelings. We
have to accept that negative feelings are very unpleasant and could
lead us to experience distress. For adolescents, they could learn
how to hide feelings even in the early stages of their development.
Regulating, hiding or masking one’s emotions have advantages and
disadvantages. Surely it could offer immediate relief as you a person
tries to relax and forget or hide his/her true emotion. But this is not
healthy if one will prolong hiding his/her emotion. There will be a
possibility that hiding emotions could lead one to uncontrollable
actions.
Repressing emotions could also lead to depression, anxiety and many
other mental health problems.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EVERY TEENAGER TO BE AWARE OF ONE’S EMOTION AND
LEARN HOW TO MANAGE IT PROPERLY. HIDING EMOTIONS DOES NOT OFFER A
PERMANENT SOLUTION AND COULD MAKE ONE’S LIFE WORSE IF NOT TREATED
PROPERLY.

HERE ARE SOME WAYS TO MANAGE ONE’S EMOTIONS PROPERLY (DE GUZMAN &
NICOLAS, 2016):

1. Understand and identify one’s emotions. Know the source, stop and contemplate
and figure out the best way to address the problem.
2. Evaluate the situation.
3. Think before you act.
4. Learn the art of effective communication.
5. Put things in proper perspective and order.
6. Practice controlling emotions and expressing emotional reactions in constructive
ways.
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