Emotional intelligence, personality traits and career decision difficulties

Abstract

This study aims to take an in-depth look at the role of emotional intelligence and personality traits in relation to career decision difficulties. The

Predicting Career Decision-Making Strategies in Women: The Role of Self-Determination and Perceived Emotional Intelligence

“…In several studies presented by Fernández-Berrocal and Extremera (2008), it was found that with regard to intrinsic motivation for study and achieving satisfactory school grades, students' perceived EI is at least as important as their cognitive abilities and personality dispositions, as it facilitates their coping abilities. In a set of studies on factors facilitating career success, it was shown that perceived EI was positively related to adaptive CDMSs and negatively associated with various CDM difficulties (Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009;Di Fabio, Palazzeschi, & Bar-On, 2012), including career undecidedness (Di Fabio, Palazzeschi, Asulin-Peretz, & Gati, 2013;Di Fabio & Saklofske, 2014). In a similar research it was found that deficits in the intrapersonal component of perceived EI contributed substantially to preference for maladaptive (e.g., avoidant and dependant) decision-making styles, over and above other personality traits of the decision-maker (Di Fabio & Blustein, 2010;Di Fabio & Kenny, 2012).…”

Career decision-making profiles and career decision-making difficulties: A cross-cultural comparison among US, Israeli, and Chinese samples

“…This includes locus of control (Lease, 2004), self-efficacy (Sidiropoulou-Dimakakou, Mylonas, Argyropoulou, & Tampouri, 2012), dysfunctional thinking (Kleiman et al, 2004;Sidiropoulou-Dimakakou et al, 2012), and personality traits as measured by the Big Five model of personality (Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009). It has been found that a more external locus of control predicted more career decisionmaking difficulties (Lease, 2004), lower levels of self-efficacy were associated with both more dysfunctional thoughts and more career decision-making difficulties (Sidiropoulou-Dimakakou et al, 2012), and, finally, lower levels of extroversion and higher levels of neuroticism were associated with more career decision-making difficulties (Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009).…”

Positive Human Tacit Signal Approach and Competence System Intelligence in Organization

“…In addition, it has been studied how emotional intelligence (Mayer et al, 2008) could be modelled or conceptualized in such way that it can be tackled more easily also to workplaces. For example, Di Fabio & Palazzeschi (2009) showed how emotional intelligence is related to career decision difficulties and they found the inclusive importance of emotional intelligence and how it is vital to construct relationships and to understand emotions. Salovey et al (2009) have divided emotional intelligence to four branches, i.e.…”

“…Organization system intelligence model increase the social awareness in form of social cognition for understanding how social organization system works. So the competence system intelligence takes into account organization's environmental pressures and demands (Bar-On, 2001;Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009) even though there is a stress on competencies. Especially at organization changes it is important to implement actions to support the organization emotional intelligence.…”

“…In our understanding when emotionally engaged to work, when giving the value for human experience and when executing the caring leadership one might be more likely to feel good and competent, and to have a sense of belonging and taken care. Also the emotional intelligence research has various concepts that are all valued here as overall study of the emotional intelligence (Salovey et al, 2009;Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2009). However, the tacit signal approach is now studied in order to see how organization detect, utilize and lead positive human tacit signals and how competence system intelligence with certain organization and government characters is specifically related to the emotional intelligence in workplaces.…”