Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Political Beliefs, and Educational Background
Presentation Type
Presentation
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Andrew Terranova, Psychology
Major
Psychology
Presentation Abstract
Emotional intelligence identifies four interrelated emotional abilities, including perception, use, understanding, and management of emotion. The Social and Emotional Learning framework is the process to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintaining supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Only 27 of the 50 states have adopted parts of the social and emotional learning framework in K-12 instruction. The present study will examine if college students educated in states that have adopted the SEL framework as part of their K-12 education curriculum report higher levels of cognitive and affective empathy and emotional intelligence. Given the adoption of the SEL curriculum seems tied to the political leanings of states, how participants’ political ideologies relate to the location of upbringing, empathy, and emotional intelligence will also be explored
Start Date
12-4-2023 2:00 PM
End Date
12-4-2023 2:20 PM
Disciplines
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Butler, Tracey, "Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Political Beliefs, and Educational Background" (2023). Undergraduate Research Competition. 52.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2023/fullconference/52
Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Political Beliefs, and Educational Background
Emotional intelligence identifies four interrelated emotional abilities, including perception, use, understanding, and management of emotion. The Social and Emotional Learning framework is the process to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintaining supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Only 27 of the 50 states have adopted parts of the social and emotional learning framework in K-12 instruction. The present study will examine if college students educated in states that have adopted the SEL framework as part of their K-12 education curriculum report higher levels of cognitive and affective empathy and emotional intelligence. Given the adoption of the SEL curriculum seems tied to the political leanings of states, how participants’ political ideologies relate to the location of upbringing, empathy, and emotional intelligence will also be explored