The development of emotional intelligence as a decisive factor in the social and professional adaptation of TVE students

Abstract

The article presents the content and results of research on the development of emotional intelligence in college students. The structure of the article includes substantiation of the relevance of the evolving development of emotional intelligence in flexible social and professional adaptation of students; definition of emotional intelligence as a threshold concept; experimental work, accompanied by the results of diagnostics of the studied competence. The research aims at psychological and pedagogical support for the development of emotional intelligence, correlating with the goals and content of TVE and based on the pedagogy of reconciling the cognitive and emotional processes of development of students in classroom and extracurricular work of the college. Scientific novelty is associated with previously unexplored emotional intelligence as a key competence of interaction in a social or professional group. Thus, the content of the experimental work of the study proves the development of thinking in students of a higher level when they analyze their existing practice of working with emotions and are involved in new and specific experiences of emotional interaction, form ideas for the development of experience and use them to solve problems of social and professional adaptation. Another result of the study is the substantiation of the activities of the tutor and students, aimed not at the content of emotional intelligence, but at the process of mastering it. The article presents an experimentally substantiated technology of activity — from posing questions, problems or situations to identifying and investigating them, when, at the same time, the components of emotional intelligence are gradually developing in conditions of mutual learning, feedback and reflection, constantly fixing areas of improvement