Exploring the Emotional Component of Social Skills in Students with Functional Disabilities: A Structural Study

Abstract

An analysis of the research literature showed that one of the main components of social abilities is the emotional   component (D. Wexler, P. Salovey, J. Mayer). Thus, in the 1930s, scientists C. Hunt and E. Thorndike, studying social intelligence, used drawings with emotional facial expressions and the task of identifying emotions by verbal description. The first to prepare the groundwork in psychology for the problem of studying emotional intelligence was G. Gardner (1983), who proposed a model of multifactorial intelligence where emotional abilities are an emotional component. In 1988, Reuven Bar-On created the first model of emotional intelligence, linking its development with the problem of quality of life.