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Over the past decade, emotional intelligence (EI) has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention within the psychological community. While at first the concept of EI belonged largely to the realm of popular psychology, academic psychology also quickly recognized it as an important construct with great explanatory and predictive potential. Problems associated with the theoretical conceptualization and measurement of EI are currently being actively explored (Matthews, Zeidner, and Roberts, 2002). At the same time, upon closer inspection of common conceptions about EI, we can see that the content of this concept is rather broad and nebulous.