Emotional intelligence was introduced in 1990 and refers to the human capacity to understand and manage emotions in oneself and others. It involves directing emotions in a balanced way rather than stifling them. There are three main models of emotional intelligence: Salovey and Mayer's ability model, Bar-On's mixed model, and Goleman's competency model. These models involve skills like emotional perception, facilitation of thought with emotion, understanding of emotion, and reflective regulation of emotion to promote personal growth. Emotional intelligence is seen as complementary to cognitive intelligence and important for work performance and relationships.

1. By: Karla García & Cynthia Delgado

2. •Was introduced in 1990 by psychologists Mayer
and Salovey
•Refers to the human capacity to
feel, understand, manage and modify emotional
states in oneself and others.
Emotional intelligence is not stifle emotions, but
direct them and balance them.

3. Howard Gardner (1983), "developed the Multiple Intelligences
model, which proposed a new view of intelligence as a multiple capacity
as a range of intellectual abilities, recognizing that there are other types of
intelligence apart from the cognitive." Of the eight types of intelligences
that Gardner defined, intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal
intelligence caught the attention of Peter Salovey and John Mayer, who
defined their skills, presenting them under the term "Emotional Intelligence.
Salovey and Mayer (1990), consider emotional intelligence as a subset of
social intelligence, which includes the ability to control feelings and
emotions and that of others, to discriminate between them and use this
information, to guide our thinking and our actions.
For Goleman Daniel (1996), emotional intelligence is the ability to control
our emotions, to know how to use an adequate sense to every problem
that we face experience. This includes self-control, persistence and ability
to motivate oneself. Being smart does not actually supposed to put a
timetable on our passions. But if we can learn to react appropriately when
we are gripped by an emotion. That is smart to our emotional life.

4. From the literature, there has been a review of major models
of emotional intelligence. These have been classified mixed
models, models of skills and other models that complement
both.
 Salovey and Mayer model
 Bar-On model
 The Goleman´s model

5. The skills included in the
model are the following:
 Emotional perception.
 Emotional facilitation of
thought.
 Emotional compression.
 Address emotional.
 Reflective regulation of
emotions
promote personal growth.

6. The model consists of several areas: intrapersonal component, component
interpersonal component mood in general, components of
adaptability, components of stress management and component of the
overall mood.
Intrapersonal component:
 Emotional understanding of
himself
 Assertiveness
 Self-concept
 Independence
Interpersonal component:
 Empathy
 Relationships
 Social responsibility

7. Goleman establishes the existence of an Emotional Quotient (EC) that is
not opposed to Intelligence Quotient (IQ) but both classic complement each
other.
An example can be seen between comparisons of an individual with a
high IQ but low capacity work and another individual with a ratio medium
and high intellectual ability to work. Both can reach the same end, as both
terms are complementary. Components according to Goleman are:
 Self awareness
 Managing emotions
 Self motivation
 Empathy
 Handling relationships

8.  In studies conducted in this paper states that
most students prefer to work together as co-
existence and the different views of their
peers helps them work more complete and
diversity of ideas, whereas the minority
students prefer to work individually as its
emotional aspect does not let you live with
more people, and as teachers we know what
our students want to work when and so will be
easier for both sides to conclude a good job.

9.  García Fernández, M. & Giménez-Mas, S.I.
(2010). La inteligencia emocional y sus
principales
 modelos: propuesta de un modelo integrador.
Espiral. Cuadernos del Profesorado [en
línea], 3(6),
 43-52. Disponible en:
http://www.cepcuevasolula.es/espiral.