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26 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 80 (2021)
Emotional Intelligence in Autism

handle is hein.journals/techssj26 and id is 80 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal
Vol. 26, 80-92, December, 2021
ISSN: 2668-7798
SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL                                www.techniumscience.com
Emotional Intelligence in Autism
Athanasios Drigasi, Angeliki Sideraki2
1 2N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece
dr@iit.demokritos.gr', angeside@helit.duth.gr2
Abstract. Emotional intelligence is a term, which includes various abilities and skills, which
enable a person to perceive and handle emotional situations both his own and those of other
individuals with the aim of his social and personal development. More specifically, the first part
of this work presents an analysis of the role of emotional intelligence in the individual. Then, the
8 pillars of metcognition are mentioned, the role of humor in El, taking distances with the help
of El, the correlation with hormones, the mindfulness model, the new layered model on El, and
the El in gifted individual. In the second part, the literature review focuses on the role of El in
autism, the views of Kanner and Aspenger, the expression and understanding of emotions of
people with ASD through El, the mindfulness and the use of robots in autism.
Keywords. Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Metacognition, Autism, Mental Retardation,
Research
1. Introduction
Emotional Intelligence, in general, but also specifically in autism disorder, is a broad
topic, which requires constant study, as new and emerging data emerge. According to the
literature, it refers to an ability of the mind which refers to emotional states. The aim of this
short research paper is the holistic study of emotional intelligence through recent published
research studies.
2. Emotional Intelligence. The Sahinetal. (2016), attempted to investigate the
relationship between intelligence, emotional intelligence and creative thinking skills, which are
considered a complex and multidimensional issue. Thus, through the study that was conducted,
they aimed to determine the type of relationship between students' emotional intelligence and
their creativity. They also aimed to find out how their emotional intelligence affects the
prediction of creativity in specific areas.
Initially, some studies such as Singh and Sharma (2012), Haroand Castejon (2014),
Leanaand K6ksal (2007), Felfeand K6ster (2001), Sahinetal. (2016), no correlations were found
between emotional intelligence and general intelligence and skills underlying it.
On the other hand, Kramerand Katzko (2002), Yakmaci Guzel (2002), Sak (2004) and
K6ksal (2007), in Sahin (2016), ruled that there was a significant correlation between emotional
intelligence and general intelligence.
For this purpose, a new study was conducted in which 239 charismatic students (122
girls and 111 boys) from two experimental high schools participated. In addition, Kaufman

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