Emotional Intelligence
Judging an individual by considering
alone their cultural diversity may not be always fruitful in bringing a positive
result in developing relationship in a multicultural environment, as every
individual carries some identical personal traits that can easily set them
apart from others belonging to the same community. Emotional intelligence is the
kind of ability that can enable you to identify, asses, and control the
emotions both of you and of others while letting you use it to get things going
in your desired direction. In a multicultural environment, your extensive
knowledge on the cultural dimension accompanied by the emotional intelligence can
definitely lead you to success by making things appear as you wish for in a
diverse culture.
Emotional Intelligence will assist
you in almost all of its models illustrated as Ability EI, Mixed Model of EI
and Trait EI.
Ability EI to Make You Master the Emotions
With their continuous research on
Emotional Intelligence, Salovey and Mayer paves way to ability based model of
EI (Emotional Intelligence) partially redefining it as "The ability to
perceive emotion, integrate emotion to facilitate thought, understand emotions
and to regulate emotions to promote personal growth." The four types of
abilities as described in this model can help you become a perfect fit to a
diverse culture:
- Perceiving Emotions:
as a basic aspect of EI, this ability can help you detect and decipher
emotions in faces, pictures, voices to make a better approach.
- Using Emotions:
with this ability you can harness your emotions and easily capitalize your
changing moods to best fit the situation demanded.
- Understanding Emotions: the ability to understand emotion can help you to grab
a hold of the secondary channel of communication used to convey messages
through senses. Again this ability of EI can readily alert you about the
slight variations of emotions or of shifting moods that matters to the
behavioral pattern of an individual.
- Managing Emotions:
with this ability, an emotionally intelligent person can enjoy the total
control to regulate emotions both in themselves and in others and thus
manage it, even if it be a negative one, to achieve the desired goals.
Mixed Model of Emotional Intelligence
Trait Model of EI to Go Deep Down the Personality for a Better Understanding
Trait model of EI, as propagated by the Soviet-born British psychologist,
Konstantin Vasily Petrides refers to the “constellation of emotional
self-perceptions located at the lower levels of personality,” by which an
individual can identify the drives shaping their personality and thus figure
out the behavioral dispositions of others to make the best step in developing
relationships under the umbrella of the diverse cultures.
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