The contribution of emotional intelligence to the social and academic success of gifted adolescents as measured by the multifactor emotional intelligence scale--adolescent version. (Social and Emotional Development.

The conception of emotional intelligence became popularized by the agency of the publication of Daniel Goleman's (1995) best-selling work on this construct and many later magazine and newspaper articles (eg Henig, 1996; Peterson 1997) These publications captured the imagination of the media and the general population through claiming extraordinary predictive validity for emotional intelligence. Goleman argued that general intelligence (IQ) typically predicts alone about 20% (r = 45) of the variance that determines various domains of life succes leaving about 80% to other factors. Moreover, he acknowledgeed his belief that many of these "other" factors are related to a put together that has been ...