Investigate the relationship between personality and anxiety in an academic context.
Activity 1: Emotional Resilience and Emotional Intelligence: Focus Groups Activity.
In groups of 5-6 through zoom breakout rooms: 1 to be the interviewer, 2 to be the notetaker, and 3-4 to be the participants (5 min)
Each Online Focus Groups should last no longer than 15 min
FG schedule
How would you demonstrate emotional resilience at work placement? What would you do?
Why emotional resilience may be important to your work placement experience? Why not?
What can you do to remain emotional resilient at work/ work placement?
What does Emotional Intelligence mean to you? What does it involve?
Why Emotional Intelligence may be important at work? Work placement experience? Why not?
How would you demonstrate an emotionally intelligent behaviour at work / work placement? What would you do?
To what extent and how Emotional resilience could be taught? What can we do to improve emotional resilience?
To what extent and how Emotional Intelligence could be taught? What can we do to improve emotional intelligence?
Consider notes and make conclusions – What are the main findings? (20 min)
What is your definition of emotional resilience?
What is your definition of emotional intelligence?
Report the highlights from the FG activity and discuss any issues that arose: (10 min)
What are the advantages of this method?
What are the disadvantages?
Share your thoughts to the whole class (5 min)
Activity 2: Research Project
Work in groups of 5-6 through zoom breakout rooms and design a hypothetical study which will examine a topic covered in this module –please see below:
Social Influence
Inter-group Behaviour
Prejudice and Discrimination
Prosocial Behaviour
Attributions
Personality
Intelligence
Interpersonal Relationships
Attitudes
Emotions
Emotional Intelligence
