The purpose of this chapter is to examine the incautious usage of social media and its impact on emotional intelligence and health. After a brief introduction to the emotional intelligence and the conceptualisation and evaluation of this construct, this chapter discusses a variety of studies that shed light on the social media, emotional intelligence and health relationships. The idea of emotional intelligence (EI) is of unmatched enthusiasm for both the literature and inside scholarly world. This chapter discusses emotional intelligence and focuses on the evolution of EI by examining the different models. This chapter lists some applications of emotional intelligence in our daily life. The chapter also discusses how the abilities correlate with emotional intelligence and helps individuals cope with unsettling emotions effectively and encourage pleasurable emotions to facilitate personal development and well-being.
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Emotional intelligence has been a significant matter of interest both in intellectual world and in the general masses since 1995. But one may trace the historical origins of emotional and psychological intelligence back to the 19th century. Charles Darwin published first ever known work in this field in 1872 and emphasized the significance of emotional communication for development and adaptation.
Peter Salovey and John Mayer first coined the term emotional intelligence in 1990 and used it in literary writing. Be that as it may, Darwin's initial work on the importance of emotional expression has reflected the basic principles of emotional intelligence survival in 1900. In 1920, Edward Thorndike portrayed the idea of social intelligence as the potential to get on with others through understanding each other's internal states, intentions, and traits. Most of these early experiments were intended to identify, characterize, and aim to measure socially responsible behavior.
After a year, David Wechsler came up with the concept of non-cognitive intelligence in 1940 asserting that it is vitally important to life's success; intelligence is indeed not finished until its non-cognitive facets are defined. John Mayer and Peter Salovey published their breakthrough article Emotional Intelligence in the journal Imagination, Cognition, and Personality in 1900. Since the book by Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: How It Could Matter More than IQ, the definition of EI became popular in 1995 and the distinction between trait & ability emotional intelligence was made in 2000 by Konstantinos V. Petrides.
There are numerous definitions of emotional intelligence. In the Salovey and Mayer's view; Emotional intelligence is the ability of individuals to identify everyone's emotions, to differentiate and properly mark different feelings, To direct one's thoughts and actions, using emotional knowledge, and manage and/or modify emotions to adjust with the environment (Colman, 2015). But according to Konstantinos V. Petrides, Trait EI is “a constellation of emotional self-perceptions located at the lower levels of personality.”
EI researchers have developed three key models over the past two decades (John, 2000): they are