Group Counseling On The Intervention Of Developing Emotional Intelligence In Secondary Vocational Students

Emotional intelligence has been received more and more concern and attention since American psychologist Salover and Mayer proposed this concept at 1990.According to Psychologist Daniel Goleman, in the process of obtaining career success, one relays 20% on IQ, while 80% on other factors. One of the most important factor is the emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in a person's life, which is also an essential factor for happy life. Secondary vocational school students are in a golden time of cultivating the emotional intelligence. Because of the frustration in study, some vocational students are prone to be irritable in adolescent and cant handle their emotion very well. All the above will bring negative impact on their study and relationship. Vocational students are in the golden time of cultivating emotional intelligence. It is becoming extremely important to find the right way to promote the development emotional intelligence of vocational students.The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of intervention of group counseling on the development of emotional intelligence of secondary vocational school students. After analyzing the characteristics of emotional intelligence of secondary vocational school students, by questionnaires and interviews, I chose 14 voluntary and qualified students from a secondary vocational school in Nanjing and divided them into experimental group and control group. Experimental group received seven times group counseling intervention,90minutes per time. The control group did not receive any group counseling. The design of experiment is having a pretest and a posttest of experimental group control group. By analyzing the difference of the pretest and posttest result of the experimental group and control group, combined with interviews and observation records and other materials, I came to following conclusion:1 Self-made group counseling project is feasible.2 Group counseling has a pronounced effect on the development of emotional intelligence for secondary vocational students.3 By the study of qualitative material of group guidance, I find out that feasible and effective group project, comprehensive group atmosphere, group homogeneity, group cohesiveness and appropriate leadership are important factors in developing a group.