EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, EMOTIONAL SKILLS AND SOCIAL SKILLS AT SCHOOL AGE

Awareness of emotions is the basic skill for the purchase all other skills, allowing understanding the emotional feelings of their own and of the other, what favors on the one hand the transmission of appropriate messages with the emotional content and on the other hand, the correct interpretation of the messages with emotional content received from the other. Emotional skills are developed, largely by involving children in discussions regarding emotions, expression or inhibition of emotional manifestation, attitude towards events, facts and queries from social and educational environment. Children learn about emotions and about how they can be managed properly, in the context of social interactions. Acquiring the social and emotional skills requires an optimal interaction of all the intra- and interpersonal factors, that can represent a source of protection, ensuring an efficient adaptation of the child to the environmental requirements. Emotional skills influence the development of social skills, in their absence, being difficult initiating and maintaining relationships with people around. Empathy is the substrate to develop the skills of cooperation, of offering aid the necessary for integration in the group. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy