Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: IntroductionThis chapter introduces emotional intelligence as an innovative variable in career decisionmaking processes.It also discusses recent empirical studies and outlines new research and intervention perspectives.In recent years, interest has grown in the significance of individual differences in career decision-making (Gati et al., 2010;Savickas, 2004).Awareness has also gradually increased that career decision-making is complex and multidimensional and that individual characteristics have to be taken into account in order to understand the way in which individuals deal with their career decisions (Gati et al., 2010).From this perspective, emotional intelligence appears to be a particularly promising variable in career decision-making processes (Di Fabio & Kenny, 2011).The chapter will deal first with the principal decisional variables in the career field (career indecision and indecisiveness, career decision-making difficulties, decisional styles) and then describe the evolution of the emotional intelligence construct.Next, it will consider the role of emotional intelligence as a new variable in the career decision-making process (
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/31932
Author: Annamaria Di
Institution: University of Florence
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1575671811