Eastern European Perspectives on Emotional Intelligence

Lada Kaliská is an associate professor of educational, school, and counseling psychology at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She has interests in factors of student performance and behavior at school and has participated in research on learning styles as well as moral, social, and successful intelligences with R.J. Sternberg. Dr. Kaliska has been involved in research projects on trait EI in Slovakia and was a principal investigator of a project (VEGA 1/0654/17) on the emotional intelligence construct. She works also as a part-time school psychologist at a high school where she implements research into real world settings. John Pellitteri is an associate professor in school and mental health counseling at Queens College City University of new York and is the president and co-founder of the International Society for Emotional Intelligence. His research focuses on EI as it relates to adaptive personality, education, counseling, and creative arts. He is co-editor of the book Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling (2006) and author of Emotional Processes in Music Therapy (2009). He has presented internationally on EI, is a certified MSCEIT trainer, and is a practicing psychotherapist in New York.

1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FROM AN EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE – INTRODUCTION 2. RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE METHOD "EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TEST" (EIT) 3. RESEARCH ON ABILITY AND TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN SERBIA: EFFORTS TO VALIDATE THE CONSTRUCTS AND LATEST INSIGHTS INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES 4. HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN CROATIA 5. THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF TWO SLOVAK FORMS OF THE TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ADOLESCENTS (Long form TEIQue-AF/ short form TEIQue-ASF) 6. TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE MODEL IN SLOVAKIA 7. EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE OF SLOVAK MANAGERS 8. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A PREDICTOR OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES OF ADOLESCENTS IN SLOVAKIA 9. TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CAREER DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF THE SLOVAK ADOLESCENTS 10. TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A PREDICTOR OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF THE SLOVAK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS 11. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT IN LITHUANIA 12. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN POLAND: DEVELOPMENTS IN TEACHERS’ EMOTIONAL ABILITIES 13. TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN BULGARIAN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS 14. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FROM EASTERN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: SUMMARY, SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES – CONCLUSION