- Operamentis - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The appearance of D. Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence" (1995), generated a flood of interest in the role that emotional intelligence plays in our lives. Goleman surveyed years of research and discoveries in the field of the neuroscience.

In particular, research conducted in the field of work psychology (Norman, 1963; McCrae & Costa, 1987; Goldberg, 1990) has demonstrated a common to personality, which is independent of social and cultural parameters - level and type - constituted by five dimensions (Big Five).
In the present, the Big Five theory is the reference point theory in the evaluation of Emotive Intelligence (cfr. Barrick & Mount, 1991; Hough, Eaton, Dunnette, Kamp, & McCloy, 1990; Mount, Barrick, & Strauss, 1994; Schmit & Ryan, 1993; Tett, Jackson, & Rothstein, 1991). It indicates the five fundamental personality dimensions which constitute an individual's emotive intelligence.

The summarised elements of personality traits which today are most commonly accepted are those of Costa and McCrae (1992), which when related to the Big Five permit the identification, for each macro factor, of sub factors which can be identified and described through the development of specific questionnaires (Skill View _^®Method).