Abstract

EXTREMERA PACHECO, Natalio  and  FERNANDEZ-BERROCAL, Pablo. The Role of Students' Emotional Intelligence: Empirical Evidence. REDIE [online]. 2004, vol.6, n.2, pp.1-17. ISSN 1607-4041.

Emotional intelligence (EI) has attracted great interest in the field of education as a vehicle to improve the socioemotional development of students. The first publications about EI made a great amount of claims about the positive influence of emotional intelligence in the classroom. The only problem was that these claims were not coupled with empirical research which systematically showed, on the one hand, the predictive level of EI and, on the other hand, the potential role of EI in different areas of life. Recently, the effect of a high level of EI on people in different settings has started to be investigated. The main aim of this article is to examine the relevant empirical research in educational settings in order to collect the existing evidence on the influence of EI, evaluated by different instruments, in the personal, social and school functioning of students.

Keywords : Emotional intelligence; emotional development; student development.

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