Emotional intelligence, social emotions, parental involvement in the emotional life of senior preschoolers: development and interrelation

The article analyzes the category of emotional intelligence and gives grounds for its significance in the social situation of the development of preschoolers. Various approaches to the analysis of the issue of emotional intelligence of a person are presented, the characteristics of its formation in preschool age are shown. Partial programs on the development of the emotional sphere and emotional intelligence of preschoolers are briefly reviewed. Empirically it has been proved that there is an interrelation between the degree of differentiation of social emotions of children with the level of emotional intelligence of preschoolers, as well as an interrelation between the indicators of emotional intelligence of senior preschoolers and the degree of parental involvement in the emotional life of their children. The necessity of organizing work on the development of emotional intelligence of senior preschoolers is substantiated, provided that the children’s parents are included as participants of educational relations.