Emotional Intelligence and Creativity in School-Aged Children and Preadolescents

Abstract

People have to constantly deal with radical changes of conduct in almost every aspect of their lives. Emotional intelligence and creativity are two important dimensions that help people to adapt and maintain their competitiveness. We used a sample of 133 school-aged children and preadolescents, who were tested with the Emotional intelligence test or children and the Imagination and creativity test, both adapted by Roco (2001). We discovered significant differences between male and female pre-adolescents regarding the development of emotional intelligence and significant correlations between fluidity and figural components of creativity and emotional intelligence. Implications of the results are discussed.