Developing emotional intelligence in gifted children at the Sirius Educational Center
The article is devoted to the problem of developing emotional intelligence in children with different types of giftedness (intellectually gifted children, artistically gifted children). The study is conducted on the basis of the Sirius Educational Center in 2020. The authors of the article use a set of techniques, including the Emotional Intelligence Test (Questionnaire) developed by D.V. Lyusin, the Emotional Intelligence Scale by N. Hall, A. Mehrabian and N. Epstein's Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy, in order to study emotional intelligence. The obtained results are subjected to statistical processing. The results of the study show that the overall level of emotional intelligence is significantly higher in the group of artistically gifted children compared to intellectually gifted ones. Artistically gifted children understand and manage their own and other people's emotions better than their intellectually gifted peers. Intellectually gifted children are better at managing emotional states than they are at recognizing, verbalizing, and differentiating other people's emotions. Intellectually gifted children are more effective in controlling the external expression of their own emotions than their artistically gifted peers. Taking into account the obtained empirical data, the authors propose a program of training sessions aimed at developing the emotional intelligence in gifted children using art therapy techniques, in particular, phototherapy.