After reading the article about emotional intelligence, I found three information that I

find interesting and significant. First, I never thought that emotional intelligence is comprised
by four branches of mental abilities: (1) perception of emotion, the ability to determine and
differentiate the emotions of one self and other people, (2) use of emotion to facilitate thought,
the use of emotions to control different actions, (3) understanding of emotion, the ability to
comprehend the meaning of different emotions, and (4) management of emotion, the ability to
alter or transform one emotional response. Second, I always thought that emotional
intelligence was just measured by a professional by observing the person. But, upon reading the
whole article, there are actually two tests that records one’s emotional intelligence, and these
are the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy Scales (DANVA), the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso
Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test,
Youth Version (MSCEIT-YV). Lastly, I though that emotional intelligence is a kind of intelligence
that only works on its own, however, it was stated in the article that it correlates or somehow
works with other kinds of intelligence that we possess and utilize. Some of these intelligence
may include verbal and movement intelligence.

The article may be informative, but some information that I have read are still unclear to
me. First, the author mentioned two methods of measuring the emotional intelligence of an
individual, but the article only focused on the two versions of MSCEIT. The DANVA and DANVA-
2 tests weren’t explained too much, which is why I didn’t understand how that particular test
works and what type of ‘results’ it could show. Second, the article mentioned that the MSCEIT
results were reliable at the highest scale of level but should not be scored based on individual
tasks. I didn’t quite understand what kind of ‘individual tasks’ the article was referring to and
the author didn’t explain it furthermore. Lastly, the statement that talked about having high
emotional intelligence could help someone avoid unpleasant emotions and that emotional
intelligence is correlated to unpleasant emotions (anxiety, depression, etc.) got me confused
because the proofs that the author was using were all contradicting each other. It was stated
that some studies show that the MSCEIT shows a positive correlation but some shows a
negative correlation, which makes me not understand whether emotional intelligence can
control unpleasant emotions.

I have three questions to ask the author. First, it was stated that the MSCEIT test comes
in two versions (Youth and Adult), would it be possible for them to release a third version? The
third version can be another adult test but with a specific age range. Also, can the age range for
the youth test be changed to 13-18 instead? For me, the age 12 is a little bit young for
intelligence tests like these. Second, can the questions in the MSCEIT be modified? The test was
published in 2002 and assuming that the questions weren’t change until today, the questions
might not match the personalities of the generation today. Lastly, since the article and a lot of
studies are claiming that the MSCEIT really provides accurate results for the emotional
intelligence of a person, is it really reliable? Can it really tell how a person manages one’s
emotions and actions?