ANALYSIS OF THE EXAMINATION OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE PSYCHOLOGIC STRUCTURE

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of studying the place of emotional intelligence in the system of intellectual qualities, manifested in the professional work of psychologists with different work experience. The structure of the professional activity of the psychologist is presented, in particular the main structural phases are used, which the psychologist uses in his work. The contribution of emotional intelligence to the implementation and successful implementation of each structural phase is described. The results of the empirical research on this issue are analyzed.
Specificity of the profession of a psychologist is determined by the content of professional activity of a specialist who interacts with the inner world of another person in the process of solving practical professional problems. It is necessary that the psychologist has such personality characteristics that would allow him to create the most favorable conditions for the development of self-awareness and the implementation of personal changes in the person who turned to him for help.
However, the implementation of the main idea of the study envisaged the appeal not only to the personality of the psychologist, but to his professional activity, which included analysis of the contribution of emotional intelligence to the implementation and successful implementation of each of its structural phase: 1) contact; 2) diagnostics; 3) impact; 4) training; 5) stimulating self-development; 6) support; 7) organizational and informational work.
Within our research, we were guided by our own key goal, the “emotional intelligence”, so we chose phases that potentially contain the distinctive features of its functioning. Next, a checklist of indicators (features of intellectual activity) was prepared, which together acted as a sub-space for the identification of groups of properties that are in one way or another associated with emotional intelligence.
On the basis of the generalization of expert judgments of experienced psychologists-practitioners and psychologists-students of senior courses on the significance of the characteristics of intelligence at each phase of psychological work, the balance and priority of emotional and rational intellectual processes in the decision of tasks of professional activity is determined.
The presented data clearly reflect the leading place of emotional intelligence in the system of such indicators and respectively indicate the functional significance of emotional intelligence at different phases of psychological and psychotherapeutic activity of psychologists.