Abstract
The article notes an insufficient study of the problem of female convicts’ emotional intelligence, and briefly considers existing models of emotional intelligence. The main results of the conducted research of female convicts’ emotional intelligence taking into account the term of their stay in a correctional institution, using the developed author’s complex of psychodiagnostic methods, are presented. The paper describes a model for enhancing emotional and personal maturity, taking into account the criminalisation and personal immaturity of female convicts through the application of cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, and rational-emotive approaches. Women serving sentences in penitentiary institutions of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in the Oryol, Moscow, and Kaluga Regions took part in an experimental study to test the adequacy and validity of the proposed model for emotional and personal maturity development and the correctional work method created on its basis. The results obtained empirically testify to a statistically significant increase in the components of emotional intelligence in the target group. On this basis, the conclusion is made about the adequacy of the proposed model and technology of work and the possibility of their practical application. This conclusion is confirmed by the information about the subsequent successful implementation of the experimentally tested psychotechnology to improve emotional and personal maturity in the activities of institutions and bodies of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service. The conclusions about the validity of the proposed model, as well as about the effectiveness and practical relevance of the created on their basis methodological tools for psychodiagnostics and psychocorrection of emotional intelligence, are made.
Highlights
The phenomenon of emotional intelligence is one of the popular yet controversial and ambiguous subjects of research
In order to study the emotional intelligence of female convicts, the authors conducted a study on a representative sample (220 respondents) using the following tools: an examination of personal case files, individual interviews, group questionnaires, expert interviews, and psychodiagnostic tools: “R. Cattell’s multivariate personality questionnaire”
The research results of the level of emotional intelligence in female convicts at different stages of serving the sentence are reflected in the figures
Summary
The phenomenon of emotional intelligence is one of the popular yet controversial and ambiguous subjects of research. While there are diverse theoretical approaches to understanding emotional intelligence and an enormous amount of applied research, emotional intelligence in female convicts serving time in correctional facilities has been still poorly studied. Conducting such a study is justified by the data of numerous empirically studied indicators of emotional components in female convicts. The above points to the need for research into the emotional intelligence of this category, the identification of its determinants, and the development of effective technology to support women serving prison sentences in the light of the features identified
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