Emotional Agility Research Articles

Emotional agility – an essential prerequisite in optimizing learning

Emotional agility – an essential prerequisite in optimizing learning

“We Can Manage This Corona Disaster”: Psycho-Social Experiences of a Diverse Suburban Middle-Class Community in South Africa: Interview-Based Study

The study concerns psycho-social domains experienced in a diverse suburban middle-class community, reporting the most positive cases and the deepest suffering, and interactions towards adaptation in stressful situations, such as the Coronavirus pandemic. This qualitative investigation used a descriptive design, with a strengths-based perspective directing a two-phased method. Through non-probability convenience sampling, 80 participants completed a web-based qualitative questionnaire (phase one). From those, 20 purposely selected volunteers participated in individual, face-to-face, open-ended, and unstructured interviews (phase 2). Themes, interpreted as one set, show how strengths and resilience appear, despite extreme shock and uncertainty. Transitional processes in psycho-social spheres reveal conscious decisions towards dynamic engagement, embracing change, reflecting on life’s value, and regarding novel meaningful priorities in contrast with “before”. Most prominent relational spaces have human connections in the inner (close) and outer (community) circles. Personal, meaningful relationships strengthen social bonds. Appreciative inquiry (AI) assisted in the transitional process to co-construct awareness of the positive core, emotional agility, and pride in embracing and expanding on newly developed strengths. Interpreted inductively, meaning described in abstracted knowledge can be transferred to and integrated with other contexts, identifying new initiatives and trans-, multi-, and inter-disciplinary debates mitigating psycho-social consequences and fostering resilience during disasters.

The Hidden Burden: Qualitative Differences in How URiM Students Experience the Clinical Microenvironment

It is well documented that medical students who identify as underrepresented in medicine are more likely to encounter social challenges in the clinical environment. Successful navigation of these challenges requires a social and emotional agility that is unmeasured in traditional metrics of success. The effects of this requirement has not yet been explored. The authors therefore set out to investigate the variations in experiences that exist between underrepresented minority students in medicine (URiM) and white students, and to determine if there was a difference in the quantitative performance evaluations applied to both groups of students. This was a mixed-methods study. In the quantitative portion, the authors retrospectively analyzed the standardized patient encounter scores of medical students from a single medical school in Michigan during the years of 2016 to 2018. The authors used multivariable ordinary least squares regression models to evaluate the differences in scores by race. In the qualitative portion, students volunteered to be interviewed and self-identified their race and gender. The authors employed semi-structured interview techniques to gather information about how the student felt their cultural or ethnic background affected their experience in the clinical environment. For the quantitative portion of this study, the authors analyzed the scores of 534 students over 4 different standardized patient encounters. The average score across all 4 standardized patient encounters was 88.7 (SD=5.6). The average score across all 4 standardized patient encounters for white students was 89 (SD=5.3), Black 87.9 (SD=7.4) Twenty-four students participated in the semi-structured interviews. Participants described feeling that the way their assessors interacted with them was largely affected by their race or gender. They also described feeling tension between how they would usually express themselves and how they were expected to in the clinical environment. When probed further, participants described various methods of adaptation to this tension including changing their hair or natural style of speech and modifying their perception of their role in the clinical environment.

Caring for the Patient.

Is there a simple secret to truly great patient care? Medical science is able to alleviate more diseases and mitigate more suffering than ever before, but physicians are left feeling less respected, more criticized, more judged, and more burned out. Too many patients say we just do not care about them, regardless of the expertise we trained so hard to give to them.Generational truths and personal experiences from a rural, community-based surgical practice in Mississippi suggest that the art and the science of medicine are inseparable and interdependent. It is indeed possible for a highly trained, teaching surgeon to sit with his patients every Sunday in church, take care of the local football team, and speak at funerals of those he fought to save. This level of emotional agility is a requisite character trait in a rural setting, and one that can serve all surgeons well, no matter where they practice. Genuine compassion and a hand on the shoulder, supported by a foundation of scientific knowledge and clinical judgment, will almost guarantee a strong, trusting bond between doctor and patient. The secret of great patient care is simply caring for the patient.

نموذج بنائي للعلاقة بين اللباقة الانفعالية والصمود النفسي والذكاء الانفعالي لدى طلبة الجامعة

This investigation aimed at examining emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence among university students. Also, it aimed at identifying the relationships between the variables, examining the contribution of resilience and emotional intelligence to predict emotional agility among university students. The study aimed also at testing a model structure of the emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence among university students. Sample was 322 of university students (59 males and 263 females) with mean age 25.12 and standard deviation 7.37. The study modified tools into Arabic of emotional agility by (David S. , 2016), RSA by (Friborg, Hjemdal, Martinussen, & Rosenvinge, 2003) and emotional intelligence by (Schutte N. , et al., 1989). Results showed that university students have good levels of emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence. No statistically significant relationships were found between the three variables, while resilience and emotional intelligence failed to predict the emotional agility. Therefore, the structure model wasn’t tested.

Study on Relationship Among Emotional Intelligence And Virtual Listening Classroom With Soundcloud


 
 
 
 
 Abstract: The research’s objective is to investigate correlation of the students’ emotional intelligence and their listening skill in virtual classroom using Soundcloud. During the pandemic, the use of that mobile enhanced-learning application permitted the students to maximize their learning with the practicality, accessibility, and discharging cost cleared up the way. The research was in correlational research method that all of data were obtained by using quantitative research. The population was twelfth grade students, it was 102 students. The sampling technique is proportional percentage sampling by 40% x population (102) = 39.20 = 40 respondents as the respondents.
 The result of research was the research hypothesis is accepted. It means that there is any correlation of students emotional agility on their listening. It could be seen through , significance level 0,05 is . Thus, the mean’s is the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and Null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected or students’ emotional intelligence influences their listening skill
 
 
 
 
 
 

Construction and Validation of Emotional Agility Measurement Tools : Measuring One'S Emotional Agility

Mental health includes one’s ability to adjust themselves with the daily stres they experience. On stresful event, there’s always highly emotional condition attached, therefore the ability to regulate emotions becomes vital. Emotional Agility is one’s ability to face emotions, thoughts loosely and move past them to help change or retain behaviors in line with goal and values . In Indonesia, research regarding Emotional Agility and it’s measurement hasn’t been explored much. The instrument are designed based on Emotional Agility theory–Susan David and being tried out to 112 respondents (young adult individuals). The validity test being used pertains to Construct Validity, using model testing Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Reliability test are done using Alpha Cronbach technique. Based on the try out, an instrument of Emotional Agility in Indonesian Version is produced consisting 49 items (p-value=1.00, RMSEA=0.00, CFI=0.97, NFI=0.97, IFI=0.97 and reliability coefficient of 0.860).

Psychological Adaptation after the COVID-19 Pandemic through the Lens of Evolutionary Biology

Despite its explainability in biological sciences, evolutionary biology has been used to explicate social phenomena through the disciplines of economics and social sciences. This study further extends the usefulness of the theory to understand psychological adaptation of human traits and preferences after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is believed that almost all aspects of life are disrupted by this mechanism of “natural selection”, and thus those who are adaptive to sudden changes are more likely to “survive” regardless of their field of expertise; whereas those who remain static are prone to become “extinct”. Based on the existing literature, three psychological characteristics are considered as adaptive traits: grit, resilience, and emotional agility. While grit helps sustain a powerful motivation to achieve any life goals, resilience allows ones to recover quickly from difficulties, given the global pandemic as an example. Furthermore, emotional agility is a self-management strategy to help people rapidly alleviate stress, adaptively tackle problems, and constantly improve performance. This paper therefore concludes that these psychological traits are necessary both in personal and educational aspects, thus more emphasis needs to be given to help equip our next generation to be capable of adapting to any changes that may come.

Eyes on the street: Photovoice, liberation psychotherapy, and the emotional landscapes of urban children

Eyes on the Street is a therapeutic photovoice program which empowered 25 predominantly African American children (ages 7–12) to use digital photography to express and process emotions about their neighborhood, the Hilltop South community of Pittsburgh. Many of the Hilltop South neighborhoods suffer from the effects of systemic sociopolitical disenfranchisement and trauma. This program implemented photovoice as a trauma-healing intervention to empower youth in the Hilltop South to recognize, utilize, and artistically express their emotional responses to the public places of their neighborhood. The program's objectives were to create activities and spaces where children can practice emotional agility by articulating their feelings as images, and to introduce children to a self-advocacy tool with which to assert the needs of their community. This paper lays out the principles of liberation psychotherapy, discusses how they have guided the program development for Eyes on the Street, and showcases the details of the trauma-healing photovoice curriculum.

Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Emotional Agility: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results

Technology education is often discussed as a dying profession. According to Volk in his 1997 article reviewing technology education teacher preparation programs, “the demise of the technology teacher preparation programs will occur around the year 2005” (p. 69). The number of technology education teacher preparation programs across the United States, programs that train educators to teach critical thinking about technology tools, are disappearing at an astonishing rate. Without teachers for the programs, tool-based instruction will cease, and our society will not be educated to look at tools in a critical manner. The number of technology education teacher graduates has decreased by 68.35% between the years of 1995 and 2008 (Moye, Jones, & Dugger, 2015). Currently, only 24 undergraduate technology and engineering teacher preparation programs with an enrollment of 20 students or more exist in the United States (Litowitz, 2014). The steady decline of programs that prepare technology and engineering education teachers has been a consistent issue for over 40 years (Moye et al., 2015). In the Commonwealth of Virginia, there is currently only one program that trains students in undergraduate technology education, which is housed in the STEM Education and Professional Studies Department (STEMPS) at Old Dominion University (ODU). Virginia was instrumental in the creation of the Standards for Technological Literacy and has been a leader in technology education since the name change from industrial arts in 1978. However, the undergraduate technology education programs at Virginia Tech, James Madison University, Norfolk State, and Virginia State University have all become inactive, making the technology education program at ODU the last remaining program in the Commonwealth.

Tips for emotional agility.

Tips for emotional agility.

Emergence of team engagement under time pressure: role of team leader and team climate

PurposeThis paper aims to identify the determinants of team engagement emerging as a collective team-level phenomenon under time pressure context. The paper particularly explores how teams working under time pressure conditions use their social resources to develop into highly engaged teams.Design/methodology/approachThe paper develops a conceptual framework along with related propositions by integrating diverse literature from the field of team processes, leadership and engagement. The arguments are theoretically embedded into the job demands-resources (JD-R) model to explain the emergence of team engagement under time pressure conditions.FindingsThe suggested conceptual model based on the JD-R model reveal that teams working under time pressure conditions view it as a challenging job demand and, hence, use their social resources as a coping mechanism, thereby developing into highly engaged teams. However, the paper finds that for team engagement to emerge under time pressure, teams require two important determinants. These two main determinants are team leader engaging behaviors and team climate. Engaging team leader’s behaviors include four sub-components: emotional agility, use of humor, efficient delegation and quality of feedback. Team climate constitute three sub-components: open communication, fun at work and compassion within the team. Only teams which have a strong team climate and team leaders’ engaging behaviors tend to have high team engagement under time pressure contexts.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper offers implications for both HR and line managers in team-based organizations to promote factors that enhance team engagement, for teams to perform under time pressure situations.Originality/valueThe paper identifies determinants of team engagement under time pressure context and further adds to the understanding of team processes by theoretically exploring how time pressure as a job demand can be channeled in a positive manner for promoting team engagement by using teams’ social resources: team leader’s engaging behaviors and team climate.

Book Review. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David

Book Review. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David

Emotional agility – a new language and paradigm for psychiatry

IntroductionEmotional Agility constitutes an alternative to the DSM-5 personality trait model.ObjectiveThe presentation outlines how Emotional Agility is conceptualised and measured through self-report and multi-rater questionnaires.AimsThe paper highlights the development of a short Emotional Agility trait questionnaire and a corresponding behavioural measure with 18 items.MethodData (n = 929) from a substantial personality questionnaire with 161 questions was utilised to create a 54 question ‘short form’ that measures the Big 5 personality factor plus Need for Achievement through 18 facet scales of 3 items each. Data on the same subjects from a 50-item criterion measure was reduced to 18 items that are structurally aligned to the 18-predictor facets.ResultsPredictor reliabilities averaged 0.752 at Factor as well as Facet level. The unit weight sum of the 54 questions achieved an uncorrected validity of 0.28 (n = 929) against external ratings of effectiveness. Joint factor analysis showed good discrimination between the six factors. A ‘positive manifold’ of Emotional Agility scales emerged as expected which could be conceptualised as the opposite of the MMPI2 ‘Demoralisation Factor’.ConclusionThe Emotional Agility approach could ground mental health assessments firmly in positive approaches that use every-day terminology. It seems preferable to vague scales claiming to measure obscure ‘clinical’ constructs through hugely overlapping items that are often not fit for purpose.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Millennial Entrepreneurs and Climate Change Management - A Cross Country Analysis of Innovation

This research paper aims to explore the dynamics of human response to global climate change by delving deeper into the link between human capital and emotional agility, and innovation by uncovering the unexplored and implicit dynamics of human capital and cognitive constructs that form an intrinsic part of emergence of novel climate change mitigation ventures. The phenomena of climate change and climate change mitigation are not new but the emergence of millennial entrepreneurs who work towards climate change mitigation has made the field of inquiry captivating and worth pursuing. The research paper explores the recently proposed concept of emotional agility and cognitive schemas in young millennial entrepreneurs working towards climate change mitigation. The research study involved rigorous exploration of the phenomenon using support from extant research as well empirical evidence from entrepreneurs from seventeen countries belonging to emerging markets. The key contribution of this research is its quali...