Emotional Intelligence

The ability to understand and manage emotions and to use emotional knowledge to enhance thought and deal effectively with tasks. Components of emotional intelligence include empathy, self-motivation, self-awareness, self-regulation, and social skill. Emotional intelligence is a measurement of one's ability to socialize or relate to others.

Year introduced: 2010

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Tree Number(s): F01.752.543.500

MeSH Unique ID: D056348

Entry Terms:

• Emotional Intelligences
• Intelligence, Emotional
• Intelligences, Emotional
• Social Intelligence
• Intelligence, Social
• Intelligences, Social
• Social Intelligences

Previous Indexing:

• Intelligence (1966-2009)

See Also:

• Interpersonal Relations

All MeSH Categories
Psychiatry and Psychology Category
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Personality
Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Adjustment
Empathy
Motivation