Talk:Emotional competence

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[edit] Subversion of emotional competence

The point of emotional competence, and what makes it different from concepts such as emotional intelligence, is that it recognises that emotions are normal and valuable parts of being human. Other approaches all end up buying into the common and destructive attitudes that emotions are dangerous, or at least unhelpful, and should be controlled or suppressed.

Emotional competence is an important part of personal self empowerement, people who are comfortable with their emotions and with expressing them are more powerful. Being comfortable with anger, for instance, helps people to be able to deal with aggression or abuse, being comfortable with fear helps people to handle danger well. The whole business of trying to coerce people into suppressing their emotions, or being afraid of their emotions, is to do with controlling people, i.e. oppressing them.John Talbut 07:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with article

IMHO, this article appears to be a combination of Original Research and pop psychology references and not an article to be included in the database of Psychology as a social science or profession. Sincerely, Mattisse 17:51, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree totally. It sounds like pseudoscience and gives no context to the subject. (Where does this idea come from and who asserts it? Is there criticism? What field does it go under?) BlankAxolotl 04:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

US Military believes in it. I have reworked the Lede and Cite'd it as such. I will try digging further into the subject and see if we can improove the rest of the Article. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 09:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)