Open AccessStudy of emotional intelligence and empathy in medical postgraduates
Author(s) -
Abhijeet Faye,
Gurvinder Kalra,
Rajeev Swamy,
Aniket Shukla,
Alka A Subramanyam,
Ravindra Kamath
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.82541
Subject(s) - empathy , emotional intelligence , psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , social psychology
The important domains of emotional intelligence (EI) are self-awareness and control of emotions, motivating oneself, and empathy. These are necessary to handle any relationship. This study aims to (i) assess emotional intelligence focusing specifically on empathy; (ii) to study the level of anger; and (iii) correlating level of anger with (a) EI and (b) empathy in medical postgraduates.