Emotional Literacy

4.5

Emotional intelligence is not merely about controlling emotional responses for one's own benefit that of others.
It is also about using emotion where suitable.
Emotion is, after all, at the heart of that sincerity which reassures, persuades and affords confidence emotion triggers flight or fight, sometime-appropriately emotion is necessary if we are to cope, for example, with bereavement emotion can lie at the source of our greatest joys.

1/12 Your child, in direct contravention to your orders, runs into the busy road. You pull him/her back and

smack or shake him/her

master your emotions and resolve upon subsequent punishment

master your emotions and explain why this was not a good idea
2/12 You then

tell the child off and threaten him/her with dire punishment

apologize and explain that mommy/daddy was frightened

burst into tears
3/12 It annoys you to

have to make the most of your physical attributes at work

see others making the most of their physical attributes at work

see others unkempt or sloppily dressed at work
4/12 You are infuriated with your partner. Do you

swear, and go for a walk?

refuse to speak for days?

plot revenge?
5/12 Your parent/parent-in-law is nagging, sarcastic and interfering. Your principal feeling is

resentment

pity

resignation
6/12 Grief is

a blight on your life

a necessary and salutary process

something which time will heal
7/12 Does worry serve a purpose?

sometimes

always

never
8/12 You are outraged by a newspaper story. Do you

become depressed?

rant at your friends/family?

write a letter to the newspaper?
9/12 Is your anger

a spur to change?

a spur to hurt or destroy things?

destructive of yourself?
10/12 Time is, above all

the great destroyer

to be ignored or vanquished

the great healer
11/12 A violent crime is, to you

an isolated, tragic case from which we can draw a lesson

outrage about which something should be done

a reflection of a general trend in society
12/12 You like music to be, primarily

deeply moving

soothing

exciting

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Emotional Literacy

1/12 Your child, in direct contravention to your orders, runs into the busy road. You pull him/her back and

2/12 You then

3/12 It annoys you to

4/12 You are infuriated with your partner. Do you

5/12 Your parent/parent-in-law is nagging, sarcastic and interfering. Your principal feeling is

6/12 Grief is

7/12 Does worry serve a purpose?

8/12 You are outraged by a newspaper story. Do you

9/12 Is your anger

10/12 Time is, above all

11/12 A violent crime is, to you

12/12 You like music to be, primarily