Abstract:

More than ten years, there has been a systematic verification of Trait Emotional Intelligence concept (further on EI) of K.V. Petrides (2009) in the Slovak setting eventuated into the adaptive, modified, verified and standardized Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaires for its assessment (long and short forms of children, adolescent and adult´s versions). The presented stidy aims at the trait EI development possibilities of school age children. The research aim was to assess global trait EI and its nine EI dimensions by Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire – Child Form (TEIQue-CF, Mavrovelli, et. al., 2008; verified by Kaliska & Nabelkova, 2015), and to find out about trait EI development possibilities by the social-emotional training program (SEL) within six weeks. The research group consisted of 63 four-grade primary education level pupils (AM age´9.56, SD=.56) split randomly into two experimental and one control group. The study discusses no significant results in the global trait EI level and its nine dimensions in two experimental groups and in comparison to the control group. It emphasizes the possible causes, limits and restrains determining the research results. The study is a part of a research project VEGA 1/0654/17 that stresses the social-emotional learning facilitation as a form of personality resilience coping of life difficulties.

Keywords:

Trait emotional intelligence, development possibilities, social-emotional learning, school age children, TEIQue-CF.