When Daniel Goleman's bestselling book Emotional Intelligence was first published in 1995, most readers were not aware that the area of emotional and social competence has been the subject of scientific study and empirical research for many years. To accurately perceive, understand, and express our feelings, to control our emotions so they work for us and not against us, has long been known to be essential for, effective communication, social adeptness, adaptability, self-actualization, and personal happiness.

Until the publication of The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence, there has been no definitive or comprehensive text on the subject of emotional intelligence. Reuven Bar-On, the person who coined the term "EQ" and developed the first test of emotional intelligence (the EQ-I), assembled with James D.A. Parker a brilliant group of researchers, academics, and practitioners for this basic and eminently useful publication. Interdisciplinary and multimethod in nature, this handbook for professionals, businesspeople, educators, clinicians, and students brings together various schools of thought and ways of approaching such different aspects of the wider area of emotional intelligence as alexithymia, personal intelligence, practical intelligence, and closely related disciplines. It emphasizes the importance of empirical methodology, developmental studies, behavioral observations, and psychometrics in order to describe and conceptualize this construct and the key components that can increase human effectiveness and wellness.

In addition to the theoretical material, this handbook provides practical applications, specifically in the field of education (for designing programs to educate children to be more emotionally and socially intelligent and to reduce negative behavior) and in the workplace (for applying this approach in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting employees and managers to improve organizational effectiveness).


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part. 1 Conceptualization of Key Constructs
1 Social Intelligence: The Development and Maintenance of Purposive Behavior
2 Social Competence: The Social Construction of the Concept
3 An Overview of the Alexithymia Construct
4 Emotional Competence: A Developmental Perspective
5 Emotional Intelligence as Zeitgeist, as Personality, and as a Mental Ability
6 Psychological Mindedness and Emotional Intelligence
7 Too Many Intelligences? Integrating Social, Emotional, and Practical Intelligence

Part. 2 Normal and Abnormal Development of Emotional Intelligence
8 Levels of Emotional Awareness: Neurological, Psychological, and Social Perspectives
9 Poor Judgment in Spite of High Intellect: Neurological Evidence for Emotional Intelligence
10 Practical Intelligence and Its Development
11 Development of Emotional Expression, Understanding, and Regulation in Infants and Young Children
12 Emotional Intelligence from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model of Personality
13 Intelligence, Emotion, and Creativity: From Trichotomy to Trinity

Part. 3 Assessment Methods and Issues
14 Assessment of Alexithymia: Self-Report and Observer-Rated Measures
15 Selecting a Measure of Emotional Intelligence: The Case for Ability Scales
16 Clustering Competence in Emotional Intelligence: Insights from the Emotional Competence Inventory
17 Emotional and Social Intelligence: Insights from the Emotional Quotient Inventory

Part. 4 Prevention Strategies and Interventions
18 Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs
19 The Effectiveness of School-Based Programs for the Promotion of Social Competence
20 Social and Emotional Competence in the Workplace
21 Emotional Intelligence, Adaptation to Stressful Encounters, and Health Outcomes
22 Emotional Intelligence: Clinical and Therapeutic Implications

About the Authors
Subject Index
Names Index