What Is Social Emotional Intelligence Saying about Internet Addiction and Being “Liked” On Social Media?

Abstract

Recently, social emotional intelligence has been fostered by several different theorists and has received much attention during these pandemic times. The present paper attempts to explore the realm of social emotional intelligence and how social emotional intelligence may address internet and game addiction as well as the extensive need for approval that seen on social media. Social emotional Intelligence has been around for many years- but has undergone many transformations. What would have been called “common sense “and morphed into this construct that we call “social emotional intelligence” to reflect our ability to understand, cope with, and address our emotional needs and deal with the sometimes harsh emotions, and comments and behaviors of others.