The Interplay among Emotions, Creativity and Emotional Intelligence: A Case of Iranian EFL Teachers
It goes without saying that educators strive for the ideal of developing higher order thinking skills like critical, reflective, logical, metacognitive, and creative thinking among their learners. Wundt (1916) considered lower order skills like Emotions as the base for the creation of these skills....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lasting Impressions Press
2018-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value6%20issue2/11-6-2-18.pdf |
| Summary: | It goes without saying that educators strive for the ideal of developing higher order thinking skills like critical, reflective, logical, metacognitive, and creative thinking among their learners. Wundt (1916) considered lower order skills like Emotions as the base for the creation of these skills. Research on emotions and Emotional Intelligence has significantly increased over the past two decades with many fields contributing including psychology, neuroscience, sociology and endocrinology. The current study tried to uncover the interplay among Creativity, Emotions and Emotional Intelligence. To this end, the researchers studied the relationship of the constructs among 160 EFL learners. The results of the study showed no relationship between EQ and creativity, however, EQ components positively and significantly influence positive emotions and the reverse is true for negative emotions; EQ influences negative emotions, negatively and significantly. The findings of the current study could help further the knowledge on the interplay among Emotional issues and Creativity. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-5460 2308-5460 |