Abstract
Given the importance of emotions in human life and the necessity of managing one’s emotions, this research project conducted an 18 week course on emotional management for a group of undergraduate students, investigated the differences in emotional intelligence (EI) levels before and after the course, and assessed EI’s effect on selected subjective wellness and psychological distress variables. The study indicated many significant results. Most importantly, the comparison of the pre-course and post-course EI scores indicated that the EI skills and competencies could be learned and enhanced through formal education. Additionally, there were also significant regression coefficients of pre-course and post-course EI scores on both subjective wellness and psychological distress variables. The significant results endorse that EI knowledge, skills, and competencies could indeed be enhanced through formal education. In particular, the understanding of EI could help the educationists and helping professionals in assessing people’s level of EI, designing relevant courses, and raising the impact of EI on both overall wellness and psychological distress.
Highlights
Believing that emotional intelligence (EI) skills and competencies can be enhanced through formal education and training, this research study conducted an 18 week course on emotional management for a group of undergraduate students; at the end of which, it was investigated for the differences in EI
There was a strong negative correlation between optimism and depression, r = −0.52, p < 0.01, and between satisfaction with life and depression, r = −0.52, p < 0.01, suggesting that higher levels of depression were associated with lower levels of optimism and satisfaction with life
There was a strong positive correlation between optimism and satisfaction with life, r = 0.51, p < 0.01, with higher scores on optimism associated with higher scores on satisfaction with life and vice versa
Summary
Emotions are considered to have a central role in our lives. Not necessarily always conscious of emotions, humans feel them frequently, and they can be manipulated to achieve certain goals and drive us to perform some impulsive actions. People often want to hide emotions due to various reasons based on individual values and cultural norms. People usually believe that they need to control their emotions to be acceptable, sound rational, perform better, and live a successful life. Becoming aware of our emotions and managing them appropriately is all the more difficult as we are not conscious of them but do not even understand them well. People intentionally engage in emotional understanding and management by reading books, attending training programs, and even working with professional helpers. Given the importance of the emotional part of human life and understanding the necessity of skilled training to understand and manage one’s emotions, this research project tried to describe emotions and elaborate on the skills of emotional management and its relation to subjective wellness and psychological distress among a sample of university students in northern Taiwan
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