According to Goleman (1998), as cited by Hidalgo (2011), emotional quotient is the basic requirement for the use of IQ. He argued that if the areas of the brain are damaged, man’s ability to think is diminished. Emotional quotient makes a man aware of his feelings and others. It affects empathy, motivation, compassion, and an ability to respond skilfully to pleasure and pain. Spiegel (1999), reported that expressing feeling and emotions could improve health. The cornerstone of emotional health is emotional stability, which describes how well an individual deal with the day-to-day stresses of personal interactions and physical environment. In achieving emotional wellness, it allows an individual to experience life’s ups and down with enthusiasm …show more content…
Maslow’s accepted hierarchy of needs suggests that the physical, social, and emotional needs of an individual must be first met in order that he can become “self-actualizing”. Consequently, in the field of teaching, one can only become productive, efficient and effective if his basic needs are attained. Another theory that may support this study on the interconnectedness of the different aspects of man is the Alderfer’s ERG theory. In his ERG theory, Alderfer proposed three human needs, which include existence, growth, and relatedness. He explained that the existence refers to the needs satisfied by such factors as food, air and water, pay, and working conditions while growth needs are those that satisfied by an individual making creative or productive contributions. According to Alderfer, relatedness is the need satisfied by meaningful social and interpersonal relationships. Man is basically a social being; thus, he needs to interact and build harmonious relationships with other …show more content…
Evans (2001) likewise reported that paralleling the rise in the spirituality was a marked rise in the material influence, yet this affluence had not satisfied the deeper part of the individual’s being (Dawson, 2000). She reported that a Newsweek poll found 58 percent of those surveyed responded positively to the idea for a need to experience spiritual growth. She noted that the percentage rose to 82 percent in a 1998 repeat study. She said that being spiritual in the new millennium did not necessarily mean attending church. In her report Evans (2001), revealed that church attendance was down 26 percent, which was originally 42 percent in 1965. Churches faced a crisis in membership and funding. However, she explained that the low attendance did not mean there was decline in believers; besides, 95 percent of Americans said they believed in God and 75 percent believed in miracles. Rather, as she explained, what people believed had changed from a God who was a distant formal figure to one who was personal, intimate, and authentic for them (Dawson,
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage individual’s emotions. Also one should be able to recognize other people emotions to help improve their life. Goleman shares five elements to the theory, which are self-regulation, awareness of your own feelings, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Having self-regulation gives people the ability to recover form emotional distress and manage one’s emotion. Motivation helps one stay in the task they want to fulfill. Empathy is the awareness of what others are feeling and social skills is the ability to cooperate with people. All of the elements are used to make individuals to be a better person, to complete their goals and bring others on track. This can bring great change to an individual at any given moment in their life and help them develop as a better
The ability to express and control our own emotions is vital for our survival in society and the work place but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Salovey and Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence (Cherry, 2015).
However for the purpose of this essay it will mean the decline of religion. There are many statistics that argue against the statement “religion is declining rather than changing”. Christian church membership in Britain between 1930 and 1990 has dropped from 9.
The credible version of hierarchy of needs of Maslow (1943, 1954), have five motivational levels that are arranged in a pyramid with depicted levels. The stages are divided in basic needs which include, psychological, love, safety, and esteem. These needs are also primary of deficiency needs. The other needs are growth needs which incorporate self-actualization needs. When basic needs are not met, they are said to motivate people. The strength of the desire of such needs depends with the time in which they are denied. For example, the more a person lacks food, the hungrier that person becomes. Basic needs must be satisfied before a person proceeds to satisfy other needs in the higher levels. When basic needs are satisfied reasonably, the person can now strive at achieving the self-actualization level, which is the highest level.
"How does Maslow’s theory of human needs explain conflict in human society?” Maslow’s model of what the five basic needs are for humans to advance, as described by Urwiler, R.N. (2008) are physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, self-esteem needs and self-actualization needs. Once an individual is missing any of the basic physiological needs to survive such as “oxygen, food, water and warmth”, then the behavior changes. “If one or more of these basic needs is lost, the priorities of a person immediately shift to satisfying the missing need” (p.83). Maslow, A. H. (1948) also found that meeting these needs could also address other conflicts in society. Humans need food, water, clothing and shelter to survive.
People have long considered general theories of motivation, and the question regarding the specific motives that direct and energize our human behavior has undergone tremendous speculation. To this day the question still stands: what is it that humans seek most in life? In an effort to answer this question, Abraham Maslow proposed what he called the hierarchy of needs. Maslow theorizes that human beings are motivated to fulfill this hierarchy, which consists of needs ranging from those that are basic for survival up to those that promote growth and self-enhancement (Kassin 300).
The religious fanfare in America is overwhelmingly Christian. There appears to be a major increase of interest in spirituality. However, there is a vast difference in the devoutness of churchgoers in frequency of church attendance. The manner in which these individuals attend church is influenced by their ages and also whether or not they have endured difficult life situations. After attending a few church services, one becomes very aware of the various types of attendees. There are three types of churchgoer categories: the Never- Miss-a-Service Churchgoers, the Show-Up for Sunday Morning Service Churchgoers, and lastly, but certainly not the least, Holiday Churchgoers.
In the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the central thesis that he tries to point out is that emotional intelligence may be more important than I.Q. in determining a person’s well being and success in life. At first I didn’t know what Goleman was talking about when he said emotional intelligence, but after reading the book I have to say that I agree completely with Goleman. One reason for my acceptance of Goleman's theory is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. To me, emotions can be just as intelligent as your I.Q. In this essay I hope to provide sufficient evidence to show why I agree with Goleman’s thesis on emotional intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence, also known as ‘EI’, is defined as the ability to recognize, authoritize and evaluate emotions. The ability to control and express our own emotions is very important but so is our ability to understand, interpret and respond to the emotions of others. To be emotionally intelligent one must be able to perceive emotions, reason with emotions, understand emotions and manage emotions.
Applying these aspects of emotional intelligence has a significant enhancing effect on every aspect of life. It allows one to be self aware, improving the ability to process information about oneself accurately (Goleman, 2008). Emotional intelligence also affects management of mood in that it enhances one’s ability to manage emotions, create moods of positivity, and defuse bad moods. Emotional intelligence also comes in handy with regards to motivation of self. It increases an individual’s ability to overcome frustration, the ability to be persistent, ability to engage in tasks that are boring, but necessary, and to be involved in and cut out productive and non-productive actions respectively.
All humans have certain needs as show by Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Maslow theorized that there are five tiers of human needs that all humans are motivated to achieve and some needs take precedence over others. The first set of needs is the biological and physiological needs such as air, food, water, warmth, and shelter. Following, are the safety needs such as security. The third tier encompasses belongingness and love needs such as intimacy and friendship. The fourth tier: esteem needs includes feeling of accomplishment. Lastly, after all of these needs are met one may obtain self-actualization, or reaching ones full potential. Maslow's hierarchy of needs was later expanded to include a 5th, 6th, and 8th tier called transcendence needs. The 8th tier encompasses helping others to achieve self actualization. When it comes to how humans achieve these needs here are three types of people: the egoist,
The scope of emotional intelligence includes the verbal and nonverbal appraisal and expression of emotion, the regulation of emotion in the self and others, and the utilization of emotional content in problem solving. (pp. 433)
The gender gap in attendance at religious services has been narrowing as the rate of the number of women attending church declines faster than the number of men, according to a new study. Between 1972 and 1974, approximately 36 percent of women and 26 percent of men reported weekly attendance to religious services, revealing a 10-point gap, according to an analysis by the Pew Research center of the General Social Survey (GSS). The gap widened to 13 points in the mid-1980s, after which it began to shrink in the coming decade through the 90s. Through the late 1980s and 1990s, the overall weekly attendance at church services declined in the United States.. However, the rate of decline was faster among women.
Emotional intelligence has a large amount of number, which in common with social intelligence. Both of them are relevant with perception and understanding of other’s emotion, oneself and act cleverly way in interpersonal relationships. They are mood driver, a neurological and biological state of mind which are the significant key for human relationship, furthermore they are overlapping, interdependent and multidimensional. Additionally, found that most successful people seem to behave wiser in socially and emotionally, for instance, in the workplace and close relationships (Kang,Day, & Meara, 2005). However, each of them contains and focuses on different elements. According to
In this essay I aim to identify the needs of humans and how they have been met from the early days of humanity, right through to the present day. I will be placing a lot of emphasis on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as this is the most widely accepted model and it makes sense that humans will have progressed up this hierarchy over time, this is something I will be exploring in the essay.