The development of emotional intelligence: a case study
Nadja Reissland
- New York: Routledge, 2012.
- 184 p. HB
PART I Overview of the literature on emotional intelligence (El) 1 Introduction Overview 3 Bcickgrouiul to the study of emotioned intelligence 4 El in the context of emotional development 5 Novel approach to studying the development of El 5 Emotional discourse and El 6 Emotion socialisation and El 6 The case study 7 The importance of the father and El 7 El in infancy 8 Labelling emotions in the context oj El growth 9 Teasing and El 10 El and cognitive development 11 El and death I! 2 Emotional intelligence: models and controversies What is emotional intelligence? 13 How is emotional intelligence measured? 17 3 The language of emotional intelligence Recognizing emotions in facial expressions: is there a developmental progression? 22 Pitch of voice and emotional intelligence 25 4 Regulation of emotional expression Self-regulation of enunions in infancy 31 The effects of maternal mental health as the basis for emotional intelligence 32 Socialization of positive emotions 33 5 Emotional intelligence: the ability to interact emotionally through empathy The development of empathy 37 Trait and ability E! and empathy 39 El and understanding jokes 41 6 Emotional intelligence, health and negative emotions Negative emotional experience and coping strategies 45 Other people's negative emotions: how nurses or carers cope with negative emotions and violence in the PART 11 workplace 46 Case study Introduction to the case study 7 The language of emotions from the first months of life Socialization of emotion during the first four months 58 Praising and reinforcing desirable emotions during the first four months 59 Talking about fear and using humour in the fifth month 61 Learning to talk about objects from 6 months onwards 63 Learning to talk about emotions in the second year 65 Conclusion 67 8 Acoustic aspects of emotion talk The influence of sound on the appraisal of emotion 71 The tneaning of the message is carried by sound 72 Questions about feelings and questions about thoughts 77 9 On the changing table: the use of rhetoric with an infant The mutual influence of parent and infant 81 The function of question 83 The use of '/' and 'you 85 Putting on socks: what routines con tell us about development 87 Emotional intelligence in communicative frames 89 10 Teasing and emotional development How does teasing relate to emotional development and the development of emotional intelligence? 93 Teasing involving innuendo 96 Teasing involving sleep 97 Teasing involving language or physical limitations 99 Teasing involving appeasement 100 Verbal teasing can involve nicknames lOI Toto 'teasing' Daddy 102 11 From 'social smile' to laughter: how positive emotions develop How to explain a smile 107 The problem with labelling emotions 108 The function of smiles 109 The changing context of a smile 112 12 Toto's experience of her father's death Death and how to explain it 119 Death and life after death 124 Passage to heaven 125 Practical ideas about life after death 126 Cognitive development and changing ideas about death and life after death 127 Conclusion 13 / 13 Conclusion 14 Emotional intelligence for parents