Almeida Fernando
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, INESC TEC & ISPGAYA, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2019 Jul 20;10(1):30-43. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe10010004.
Emotional intelligence is intrinsically associated with the ability to understand, manage, and express feelings and deal with other people's emotions. This competence is essential for the formation, development, and maintenance of personal and professional relationships. Furthermore, emotional intelligence can be extensively worked out and developed over time, which allows each individual to become a better professional. Nevertheless, the perception that higher education students have about the importance of emotional intelligence remains residual and there are few contexts that allow them to develop emotional intelligence skills. In this sense, this study proposes the use of a serious game to assess and develop emotional intelligence skills in the context of an entrepreneurship discipline attended by multidisciplinary students from the courses of management and computer engineering. The performance of students is measured and discussed considering a mixed methods approach. The findings indicate the existence of a correlation between the player's emotional intelligence skills and his performance in the game, and this occurrence is common to students regardless of their course, gender, age, and number of years of professional experience. The study also explores the importance of emotional intelligence considering the distinct profile of students.
情商与理解、管理和表达情感以及处理他人情绪的能力内在相关。这种能力对于个人和职业关系的形成、发展和维持至关重要。此外，情商可以随着时间的推移得到广泛的锻炼和发展，这使每个人都能成为更优秀的专业人士。然而，高等教育学生对情商重要性的认识仍然有限，而且很少有环境能让他们培养情商技能。从这个意义上说，本研究提出使用一款严肃游戏，在管理和计算机工程专业多学科学生参加的创业学科背景下评估和培养情商技能。考虑采用混合方法来衡量和讨论学生的表现。研究结果表明，玩家的情商技能与他在游戏中的表现之间存在相关性，而且无论学生的专业、性别、年龄和专业经验年限如何，这种情况都很常见。该研究还根据学生的不同特点探讨了情商的重要性。
