emotional intelligence

There is the history of such concept, as emotional intelligence, and also positions of scientists concerning formation of this new phenomenon of pedagogy in the article. The theoretical analysis of its basic models is given. It is noticed that development of emotional intelligence of children is represented to the extremely important and actual in a context of a modern society.

The problems associated with the predictive validity of general intelligence and non-academic (social and emotional) intelligence remain relevant and controversial. In order to test the hypothesis that the complementarity of intelligence types can determine academic success and the formation of universal competencies among university students, we obtained (two independent samples) characteristics of general (“Progressive Matrices” by J. Raven, “The Principal Way of Grouping” by A. Lobanov), social (G. Gilford’s test) and emotional intelligence (EmIn by D. V.