Emotional Intelligence, Or And In-Depth Look At Maintaining A Healthy Relationship
Here are the 9 factors that determine our EQ, or Emotional Intelligence:
Self Awareness during moments of interaction, including awareness of one’s stimulus value.
Self-Reflection about one’s contributions to prior marital problems and/or solutions.
Empathy - the ability to put one’s personal needs aside while responding to one’s partner’s immediate needs.
Self-Responsibility - the personal strength to accept responsibility.
Emotional Fluency - the ability to assertively articulate inner thoughts, feelings, motivations, and other self-expressions.
Emotional Literacy - the ability to accurately read the subjectivity of one’s partner
Effective Problem-Solving
Positivity - maintains an overall positive perspective on life, even during difficult times.
Emotional/physiological self-regulation - the capacity to control states of tension in order to achieve good enough vitality or calmness as needed.
