Emotional intelligence of generation Z adolescents as a factor in the development of their personal agency

Abstract

The relevance of the research is associated with modern changes in the process of the formation of personal agency of generation Z adolescents. An important factor in this process is the development of their emotional intelligence in the environment of additional education. The aim of the study was to study the characteristics of the emotional intelligence of adolescents and its influence on their personal agency. 110 adolescents aged from 13 to 14 years old, 55 girls and 55 boys, took part in the experimental study, which was held at the Center of Creative Development "Dialogue" in Kursk (the Russian Federation). In the course of the study, an additional program of general education "Social testing ground" was implemented, aimed at creating of the conditions for the adolescents' development of personal agency and its "Socio-communicative module" at the intensification of their emotional intelligence formation. Based on the results of experimental work, it became known that during the developmental process of personal agency, adolescents can reach its various stages. 4% of them have reached the "Observer" stage, 17% - "Learner", 50% - "Apprentice", 24% - "Master" and 5% - "Creator". The development of individual indicators of emotional intelligence has gender characteristics. Girls have better developed recognition of other people's emotions, boys have better control over their own emotions (p <0.01). At the same time, their integrative level of emotional intelligence is quite close. There is a need to develop the emotional intelligence of adolescents for the successful formation of their personal agency and socialization in modern social and cultural conditions.