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Poonamallee L, Harrington AM, Nagpal M, et al. Improving Emotional Intelligence through Personality Development: The Effect of the Smart Phone Application based Dharma Life Program on Emotional Intelligence. Front Psychol. 2018;9:169doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169.
Poonamallee, L., Harrington, A. M., Nagpal, M., & Musial, A. (2018). Improving Emotional Intelligence through Personality Development: The Effect of the Smart Phone Application based Dharma Life Program on Emotional Intelligence. Frontiers in psychology, 9169. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169
Poonamallee, Latha, et al. "Improving Emotional Intelligence through Personality Development: The Effect of the Smart Phone Application based Dharma Life Program on Emotional Intelligence." Frontiers in psychology vol. 9 (2018): 169. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169
Poonamallee L, Harrington AM, Nagpal M, Musial A. Improving Emotional Intelligence through Personality Development: The Effect of the Smart Phone Application based Dharma Life Program on Emotional Intelligence. Front Psychol. 2018 Feb 23;9:169. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29527182; PMCID: PMC5829461.
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Front Psychol. 2018 Feb 23;9:169. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169. eCollection 2018.

Improving Emotional Intelligence through Personality Development: The Effect of the Smart Phone Application based Dharma Life Program on Emotional Intelligence.

Frontiers in psychology

Latha Poonamallee, Alex M Harrington, Manisha Nagpal, Alec Musial

Affiliations

  1. Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, The New School, New York, NY, United States.
  2. Dharma Life Sciences LLC, New York, NY, United States.
  3. Independent Scholar, Previously with Dharma Life Sciences LLC, New York, NY, United States.

PMID: 29527182 PMCID: PMC5829461 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00169

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is established to predict success in leadership effectiveness in various contexts and has been linked to personality factors. This paper introduces Dharma Life Program, a novel approach to improving emotional intelligence by targeting maladaptive personality traits and triggering neuroplasticity through the use of a smart-phone application and mentoring. The program uses neuroplasticity to enable users to create a more adaptive application of their maladaptive traits, thus improving their emotional intelligence. In this study 26 participants underwent the Dharma Life Program in a leadership development setting. We assessed their emotional and social intelligence before and after the Dharma Life Program intervention using the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI). The study found a significant improvement in the lowest three competencies and a significant improvement in almost all domains for the entire sample. Our findings suggest that the completion of the Dharma Life Program has a significant positive effect on Emotional and Social Competency scores and offers a new avenue for improving emotional intelligence competencies.

Keywords: emotional intelligence; leadership development; neuroplasticity; neurosciences; personality development; student development

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