Emotional intelligence: preliminary results on its nature and predictive validity.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The Educational System is one of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) implementation fields. From a few years back, the possible links between EI and students adaptation to the Educational System need some questions to be answered prior to the study of predictive validity in educational contexts. On one hand, some empirical data are needed to show we are faced with a novel construct and, if so, to prove whether EI is related to some adaptive criteria about educational adaptation. This research is only the beginning of a series of investigations by the authors aimed at showing that EI is a novel and autonomous construct, with independence from other constructs related to intelligence and personality. On the other hand, some outcomes related to adaptation are shown.