It was determined that the men with the highest test scores in college were not necessarily more successful than those with lower test scores. They did not have higher salaries, they weren't more work-productive, and they didn't have higher status in their jobs. They also didn't achieve greater satisfaction in life nor did they have more happy relationships. Sadly, these results seemed to indicate that academic success and high intellectual IQ did not predict emotional success in life. Emotional intelligence is in many ways a predictor of emotional and personal successes in the future.
Emotional intelligence is certainly something that can be evaluated in everyone.
The ability to measure a child's or adolescent's emotional intelligence is important. Emotional intelligence testing measures characteristics such as empathy, social responsibility, impulse control, and the ability to relate to others in an age-appropriate and responsible manner. Emotional intelligence measures the skills one has to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures. Long ago, psychologists came to understand that cognitive intelligence is relatively fixed. Certainly early childhood, environmental, and early life events shape intelligence, as do genetic factors.