The Hein Model of EI
The other day I tried to add a brief description of my model of EI to Wikipedia. Somenone quickly took it down. This is what I had written
An alternative model, which views emotional intelligence as an innate potential has been proposed by Hein (2005, 2007). This model defines emotional intelligence as "the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions." This model suggests an individual may be born with high emotional intelligence, yet later act in ways which are unhealthy, anti-social or self-destructive due to their environment and experiences. The model also suggests that current tests can not accurately measure emotional intelligence by looking at an adolescent's or an adult's emotional skills, emotional knowledge and behavior, since all of those are significantly influenced by one's environment and experiences.
I decided to put it back up again today to see how long it will take before someone cuts it out again. It seems there are a lot of people who don't want you to know about my model of EI. Whoever deleted it said something like "Please stick to models from the research literature and not websites, pop psych etc... But they seem not to remember that Goleman's book which made the term emotional intelligence was more pop psych than original research. They also seem to believe that an idea can't possibly be any good if it did not come from someone in a university or if the status quo has not endorsed it.
S. Hein
Jan 29, 2008