Emotional intelligence involves perceiving, understanding, and managing emotions. It has three dimensions: recognizing emotions, perceiving others' emotions, and managing one's own emotions. The document discusses how deficits in emotional intelligence may relate to several mental disorders like depression, social anxiety, PTSD, and personality disorders. Improving emotional intelligence could offer opportunities to better understand and treat the emotional aspects of these disorders.

1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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2. INTRODUCTION
•Emotional Intelligence (EI) represents a global
capacity to deal with emotions and emotional in
formation. It involves a set of skills that define
how effectively we perceive, understand, reason
with and manage our own and others’ feelings

3. DIMENSIONS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
• Recognizing and describing emotion
• Perceiving emotions in others
• Managing and controlling emotion

4. SPECIFIC DISORDERS AND EMOTIONAL
INTELIGENCE
Depression
• An inability to regulate negative emotions is considered a risk factor
for depression
• The managing and controlling emotions aspect of EI would be
particularly relevant to this disorder.
Social Anxiety
• Social anxiety involves a characteristic fear about interacting in social
situations and involves significant difficulties in interpersonal
functioning.
• Emotional control was a significant predictor of social interaction
anxiety.

5. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Studies have found that people with higher EI reported fewer
psychological symptoms relating to their traumatic experiences.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
• Persons with GAD have difficulty understanding their emotional
experience and may possess few skills to modulate their emotions.
Eating Disorders
• Alexithymia is common in people with Eating Disorders.
• Patients have difficulty recognising emotions from facial expression
and vocal tone.

6. Substance Abuse
• It is widely accepted that people drink alcohol to regulate the quality
of their emotional experience.
• Studies have found associations between lower emotional
intelligence and substance abuse problems.
Compulsive Gambling
• Lower EI is related to less self‐efficacy to control gambling and more
problem gambling.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Emotional deficits are considered to be one of the core features of
the Autistic Spectrum Disorders .

7. Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Emotional deficits are considered to be one of the core
features of the Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Borderline Personality Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) symptomatology was
associated with poor emotional clarity and emotional
regulation.

8. • EI may have an important role to play in the diagnosis of all
personality disorders. For example, people with paranoid
personality symptoms reported less emotional clarity and
emotional repair, but more public emotional self‐monitoring
and private emotional preoccupation while people reporting
more histrionic symptoms reported less emotional clarity but
both more private emotional self‐awareness and more public
emotional self‐monitoring.

9. FUTURE IMPLICATIONS:
• EI offers the opportunity to better conceptualize the emotional
disturbances of a number of clinical disorders and hence has
significant implications for treatment.

10. •Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) is the scale
used to measure Emotional intelligence.

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