The thesis substantiates the triangulation model of emotional intelligence in the discourse on an individual’s life fulfilment based on the meta-modernist methodology and mixed methods of empirical research. Thus, emotional intelligence studied within various theoretical approaches, models and concepts was analyzed; the psychological-hermeneutic concept of emotional intelligence was projected on the discourse of an individual’s life fulfilment, its triangulation model was substantiated. The application of the mixed methodology for the research organization, selection of diagnostic methods, experimental influence and sampling for the empirical research was described. The nomothetic line of the empirical research on emotional intelligence was realized at the pilot and screening stages; the quantitative analysis of the obtained data was presented. The ideographic (qualitative) research on emotional intelligence in the discourse on an individual’s life fulfilment through narrative analysis of psychotherapeutic cases was presented. The application of the mixed methods for the empirical research in the context of the implemented positive psychotherapeutic program for the formative experiment was presented.
The thesis defines the concept of «a discourse on life fulfilment of a personality» as a holistic chronotope of value-targeted modelling and life implementation within a relevant socio-cultural content that takes place through different speech practices. The triangulation model of emotional intelligence in a discourse on an individual’s life fulfilment is substantiated; it includes internal, external and integrative modes. The relations of the emotional intelligence structure with the psychological-hermeneutic mechanisms of life fulfilment are presented: 1) the internal mode is associated with the dominance of the bodily sensation and the hermeneutic mechanism of understanding; 2) the external mode is associated with emotional competence and the mechanism of interpretation; 3) the integrative mode is associated with a balance of bodily sensation and emotional competence and the closed hermeneutic circle. The paired discursive positions of Observer-Insider in the internal mode, Epigone-Expert in the external mode and Reader-Author in the integrative mode of an individual’s life fulfilment are determined, as well as the emotional intelligence functions related to the corresponding discursive positions: individuation for an Observer, self-actualization for an Insider, socialization for an Epigone, adaptation for an Expert, self-determination for a Reader, life creation for an Author. The psychological mechanisms of emotional intelligence in the discourse of an individual’s life fulfilment are substantiated: intuition and anticipation in the internal mode, decentration and reflection in the external mode and facilitation and empathy in the integrative mode of an individual’s life fulfilment. The discursive forms of an individual’s life fulfilment are singled out: mentative in the internal mode, narrative in the external mode and a thesaurus in integrative mode. The introduced concept of «discursive actions of a personality» represent ways to actualize the axiological potential of emotional intelligence, in particular: comprehension and acceptance of meanings in the internal mode, finding and mastering meanings in the external mode and meaning synthesizing and implementation in the integrative mode.
The psychotechnical arsenal of positive psychotherapy was adapted to the tasks of emotional intelligence development in order to improve the human life quality. The scheme of psychotherapeutic narrative as a means reflecting efficiency of consultative-therapeutic work with a client is developed. The factor structure of emotional-value, target and reflexive-evaluative factors of an individual’s life fulfilment at early adulthood is explained and the predictors of future psychologists’ life quality were determined. Emotional intelligence for future psychologists performs the function of mediation-coordination and service of their value-targeted aspirations.
Key words: emotional intelligence, bodily sensation, emotional competence, mixed methods, triangulation model, psychological-hermeneutic mechanisms, discourse of life fulfilment, psychotherapeutic narrative, positive psychotherapy, early adulthood.
