MODULE 5. UNFOLDING THE EMOTIONAL SELF


MODULE 5. UNFOLDING THE EMOTIONAL SELF

Emotions are very important in understanding ourselves because it portrays how we acquire a given scenario. Our emotions also show how a person act and behave. There are times that emotions are really hard to control that is why sometime we tend to do things we didn’t mean to do but because of high emotional level, we do things or we say things unexpectedly. Despite having high emotional level, an individual is expected to have the ability to contain his or her emotions. Emotions are considered as the lower level of responses but it is the most critical survival function in making one aware of threats coming from the surroundings. Being this critical survival function, it actually affects the inner consciousness of a person. Emotions and feelings are different. Totally different. Emotions are the biological experiences or responses while feelings are the mental portrayal of what is going on in our surroundings. Feelings are interpretation of our emotions.

Emotional Intelligence, based on For Bar-on, is an array of non-cognitive abilities, competencies and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with the environmental demands and pressures. Emotional Intelligence had it specific components that had been outlined in three different models. First model have four branches namely emotional perception and expression, emotional facilitation as aids to make sound judgement, emotional understanding and analysis, and reflective emotional regulation. The first model was based on Mayer, Salovey and Caruso’s research back in 2004. The next model is by Goleman during the year 2005 and these are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. Lastly, Bar-on made their own model in the year 1997 having five composites such as: self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal, decision-making and stress management.

When we reach the stage of adolescence, we experience that our biological, psychological and social change. During the adolescence time as well, we develop our values, better perceptions and we engage ourselves in taking risk. Emotional regulation is one of those keys for our emotional efficacy and emotional maturity to be established. It is known as being the attempt of influence emotion. Emotional regulation is applied when having an interaction with self or others. There are common characteristics that makes an individual have achieved emotional maturity and efficacy; self-control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, innovation and empathy.

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