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Emocionalna inteligencija: teorija, operacionalizacija, primjena i povezanost s pozitivnom psihologijom
Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Operationalization, Implementation and Relationship with Positive Psycholog

Author(s): Vladimir Takšić, Tamara Mohorić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar

Summary/Abstract: During the past fifteen years emotional intelligence (EI) raised much interest in psychological research. The name, definition and first research of emotional intelligence are connected with two psychologists, John Mayer and Peter Salovey. They have been slowly and systematically developing models and instruments for EI appraisal. Measurement of individual differences in emotional intelligence is based on two different models, one which relies on a) self-appraisal of abilities, and the other which is based on b) measurement of EI with ability tests. In Croatia, in use are several questionnaires (Tak{i}, 2002b; 2004). The first developed test of EI is MEIS – Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS; Mayer, Caruso and Salovey, 1999), whose shortcomings were improved in the second test battery called MSCEIT (Salovey, Mayer, Caruso and Lopez, 2001). Several different tests from the EI model have been developed in Croatia (Arar, Tak{i} and Molander, 2000;

  • Issue Year: 15/2006
  • Issue No: 84+85
  • Page Range: 729-752
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Croatian