... framed EI within a model of intelligence. Reuven Bar-On (1988) has placed EI in the context of personality theory, specifically a model of well-being. Goleman (1998b) model, formulates EI in terms of a theory of performance. Let's now consider the history of EI and the origins of the concept. When psychologists began to write and think about intelligence, they focused on cognitive aspects, such as memory and problem-solving. However, there were researchers who recognized early on that the non-cognitive aspects were also important. A number of researchers asserted the idea that cognitive factors but also social and emotional factors equally delineated intelligence. (Thorndike 1920, Wechsler 1943, Leeper 1948). In the field of psychology the roots of EI theory go back at least to the beginnings of the intelligence testing movement. E. L. Thorndike (1920). As early as 1920, Thorndike proposed a model of intelligence, which included other factors than the ...

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