Why Emotional Intelligence Matters: in Pursuit of a Psychologically Healthy, Intimately Connected, and Vocationally Valuable Life

The person who remains resilient in the face of life?s inevitable challenges, who can establish a lasting intimate romantic connection with another individual, and who can achieve a high level of occupational value, is thought to be well on the way to living a meaningful, satisfying and ultimately successful life. Illustrated through a series of three empirical psychological studies, this book explores the means by which emotional intelligence contributes through its constituent elements to these three highly desirable life outcomes.