CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

INTRODUCTION

Rationale

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify one's own and the other

people's emotions, to distinguish between different feelings and identify them

properly and to use emotional information by thinking and behavior. It is also the

ability to recognize your emotions and to understand what they're telling you and

realize how your emotions affect people around you. It also involves your opinion

to the others: When you understand how to feel this allows you to manage

relationships properly. And emotional intelligence impacts many different aspects

of your daily life such as the way you behave and the way you interact with each

other. Emotional Intelligence is an awareness of your actions and feelings and

how they affect those around you, valuing others, listening to their wants and

needs, and are able to emphasize or identify with them on many different levels.

The ability to understand and make oneself understood is a must for gaining peer

interaction. The identity and awareness of self both the positive and negative

would emerge and develop. Peer interaction is important because it is something

that children commonly manage by themselves already at an early age and

therefore are supposed to manage without too much involvement from adults. As

soon as an adult is involved, it is per definition no longer mainly a peer

interaction. These peer interactions are important because they lead to positive

social and emotional development in children. The importance of peer interaction

in play cannot be exaggerated ; it is a condition for further development. Peer

interaction starts early, already at a pre-verbal developmental age, and can be

regarded as a condition as well as a predictor of language development.

Interpersonal relationship is an integral part of the capacities in our life. This

capacity will boost our adaptability in our own peer groups. Two studies found

positive relationships between the ability to manage emotions and to socialize

with others. As what we, the researchers, can witness the high school students

around the world engage themselves with their peers. With the preceding

impression of the researchers, this study hopes to determine the relationship

between the student's emotional intelligence and their peer interaction of all the

high school students at the International Academe of EnScieMa during the year

2015-2016. The product of this study will become the basis for the formulation

and proposal of specific actions in the development of the student's emotional

intelligence towards peer interaction.