Emotional intelligence
Subtitle: perspectives from educational and positive psychology
By: Mourad Ali Eissa, Jerrell C. Cassady.
Contributors: Cassady, Jerrell C.
Series: Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education -- v. 336
Publisher: Peter Lang; P. Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781433101960; 9781433101953
Subjects: Emotional intelligence; Educational psychology; Positive psychology
Description: "This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emotional intelligence : perspectives from educational and positive psychology; title: Perspectives on educational psychology; title: Educational psychology and emotional intelligence : toward a functional model for emotional information processing / Jerrell C. Cassady & Justin J. Boseck; title: Can we improve emotional intelligence? : addressing the positive psychology goal of enhancing strengths / Kelly B.T. Chang; title: Trait emotional intelligence, psychological well-being, and peer-rated social competence in adolescence / Stella Mavroveli, K.V. Petrides, Carolien Rieffe & Femke Bakker; title: Trait emotional intelligence and children's peer relations at school / K.V. Petrides, Yolanda Sangareau, Adrian Furnham & Norah Frederickson; title: Emotional intelligence and self-efficacy as predictors of job stress among elementary school teachers in Egypt / Mourad Ali Eissa & Waleed El Said Khalifa; title: Emotional intelligence : what's in a name? / Elizabeth M. Freeland, Robert A. Terry & Joseph L. Rodgers; title: Perspectives on positive psychology; title: Trait emotional intelligence and happiness / Adrian Furnham & K.V. Petrides; title: Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction / Benjamin Palmer, Catherine Donaldson & Con Stough; title: Positive emotions and emotional intelligence / Michelle M. Tugade & Barbara L. Fredrickson; title: Emotional intelligence and life adjustment / Lennart Sjberg; title: The positive psychology of emotional intelligence / Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer, David Caruso & Seung Hee Yoo; title: Positive emotions and health benefits : the role of emotional intelligence and coping / Mourad Ali Eissa, Justin J. Boseck & Jerrell C. Cassady.