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Emotional Intelligence and Youth Career Readiness

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Emotional Intelligence in Education

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Amidst the global youth unemployment crisis, the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and youth career readiness is an important theme of research for enhancing positive youth development and strengthening human capital. This chapter reviews studies focusing on trait and ability models of EI and their impact on youth career readiness in terms of career decision variables (career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, decision-making styles) and employability. The chapter also describes empirically supported interventions that contribute to promoting career readiness through the development of EI and further delineates possible implications for career counselors and educators. Finally, some research and intervention suggestions to promote career readiness of youth in a preventive framework are introduced.

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    Regarding the complex evolution of the classifications of the existent EI models, in the literature, it is possible to find the following: the first classification by Mayer, Salovey, and Caruso (2000) that distinguishes between mental ability models and mixed models, a second classification by Petrides and Furnham (2000, 2001) that distinguishes between the trait EI and information-processing EI, and up to the more current classification summarized by Saklofske and colleagues (Saklofske et al., 2003; Stough et al., 2009) that distinguishes between ability EI models and trait EI models that include self-reported EI (Bar-On, 1997) and trait emotional self-efficacy (Petrides & Furnham,2001).

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Annamaria Di Fabio

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Donald H. Saklofske

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    Donald H. Saklofske

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Di Fabio, A., Saklofske, D.H. (2018). Emotional Intelligence and Youth Career Readiness. In: Keefer, K., Parker, J., Saklofske, D. (eds) Emotional Intelligence in Education. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90633-1_13

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