Can Emotional Intelligence Act as a Weapon (Warrior) Against Bullying?

Nino Jikia, Natela Doghonadze, Tatiani Gkatsa

2023

Abstract

To build an effective and safe learning community fighting with bullying is critical, which can be done via increasing students’ emotional intelligence. This paper aims to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and bullying rate, and how an effective bullying prevention program can be organized. For this study, the qualitative research design was chosen. A convenience and snowball sampling were applied to hold the interview with school teachers and psychologists. Eight teachers and two psychologists from different schools were interviewed via the zoom.com platform. The findings revealed that, for most teachers, the term ‘emotional intelligence’ was relatively new. However, psychologists were well aware of this concept. All respondents were well aware of the concepts of bullying (victims of bullying, bullies, bystanders, and victimization). Most importantly, all respondents believed that the development of emotional intelligence can help prevent or at least diminish the bullying rate. Developing emotional intelligence should become one of the priorities for reducing the bullying rate among students. Bullying prevention/intervention programs should have a complex nature.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jikia N., Doghonadze N. and Gkatsa T. (2023). Can Emotional Intelligence Act as a Weapon (Warrior) Against Bullying?. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, SciTePress, pages 589-596. DOI: 10.5220/0011999700003470

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu23,
author={Nino Jikia and Natela Doghonadze and Tatiani Gkatsa},
title={Can Emotional Intelligence Act as a Weapon (Warrior) Against Bullying?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2023},
pages={589-596},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011999700003470},
isbn={978-989-758-641-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Can Emotional Intelligence Act as a Weapon (Warrior) Against Bullying?
SN - 978-989-758-641-5
AU - Jikia N.
AU - Doghonadze N.
AU - Gkatsa T.
PY - 2023
SP - 589
EP - 596
DO - 10.5220/0011999700003470
PB - SciTePress