Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 3
Written by Daniela CREÈšU, Radu Andrei IOVA, Oana Roberta CREÈšU

Developing emotional intelligence (EQ) brings numerous benefits in different aspects of a person life, including interpersonal relationships, career, school and mental health. Thinking before acting is an essential element. Emotionally intelligent people know that they must act, they know that emotions are strong and intense, but also that the need to control impulses is fierce. It is not only social constraints that dictate this direction, it is about the conscious tempering of impulses that comes from the complexity of understanding and correct reasoning. A greater awareness of one's own emotions, feelings and needs then extends to the others too. People with developed and fully aware emotional intelligence also show an associated empathy, which comes from understanding how we would react if we were in the same situation. Based on these considerations, the present study aimed to capture how different people, in terms of age, gender and occupation, act in different contexts and which dimensions of emotional intelligence are predominant, depending on the mentioned characteristics. For this purpose, it was used a standardized questionnaire, elaborated by Daniel Goleman, with 10 multiple-choice questions, to which we added 3 filter questions for a better in-depth study, applied to a sample of 320 respondents, from the student category, institutional sector and private sector. The correlations between the items were analyzed using the theoretical χ² test. Following the study, we cannot conclude that age has a significant importance in the components of emotional intelligence, but the results from the socio-professional groups gave us some important clues. The fact that students obtained the highest score is probably the result of the introduction into the study program of disciplines that directly or indirectly develop this type of intelligence, and the field that had a close score was the private economic sector, where most people are administrators and, in the competitive context of our economy, they had to develop leadership skills in order for their business to work.

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