Blog #3: Round 1 – What Affects Emotional Quotient?

“What Affects Emotional Quotient?”

Emotional quotient is the ability to understand others, communicate effectively, manage your emotions, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict [3]. This can affect us by driving our behaviour, which impacts our environment and other people [2]. There are four attributes that commonly define emotional quotient; self-management, which includes being able to manage your own impulses, self-awareness, which includes managing your emotions and knowing how to control them, social awareness, which includes feelings of empathy and knowing how or when to care for others, and relationship management, which includes being able to deal with relationships and how to deal with conflict [3]. High emotional quotient levels can also come in handy when you are feeling stressed out [2]. Emotional intelligence is very different from intelligence quotient because intelligence quotient usually refers to your intellectual ability, which includes logic and problem-solving skills [1]. Basically, emotional quotient is focused on how you manage your feelings and intelligence quotient is focused on how you fix problems and learn and adapt to change [1]. Emotional quotient affects a lot of things, including school or work, physical health, mental health, relationships, and social intelligence [3]. Also, research has shown that if you have a higher emotional quotient you will live a happier life in general [4]. In an academic setting, students who have higher emotional intelligence may be less likely to be bullied by other students [4]. High levels of emotional quotient can also aid in the workplace, helping you achieve your goals in the organization and to increase your job satisfaction [4]. Emotionally-intelligent people can also regulate their own emotions and are able to recognize and deal with conflicts, which can be very useful in the long-run [5]. People also are very drawn to people who have high emotional quotient levels, because those people are able to understand social cues, how you are feeling, and what you are trying to accomplish [5]. A way that you can gain a higher emotional intelligence level is by learning how to understand your emotions and understanding why you are feeling them [5]. You might also enjoy learning from yourself through writing in journals about experiences and emotions you felt during those experiences [4]. All in all, emotional quotient is equally as important as intelligence quotient, and both are needed for a successful and positive future.

Citations:

“What Is Emotional Intelligence?” What Is Emotional Intelligence?, https://www.ihhp.com/meaning-of-emotional-intelligence/. Accessed 11 Nov. 2021. [1]