List five skills for becoming emotionally competent.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Awareness of one's emotional states.
2. Discerning others' emotions.
3. Using the vocabulary of emotional terms in socially and culturally appropriate ways.
4. Empathic and sympathetic sensitivity to others' emotional experiences.
5. Understanding that inner emotional states do not have to correspond to outer expressions.
6. Adaptively coping with negative emotions by using self-regulatory strategies that reduce the intensity or duration of such emotional states.
7. Awareness that the expression of emotions plays a major role in the nature of relationships.
8. Viewing oneself overall as feeling the way one wants to feel.

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