TY - JOUR T1 - The Art of Emotional Intelligence in Soft Skills: Generate the 1st Class Human Capital AU - Johar, Siti Sarawati AU - Ramlı, Zurina PY - 2018 DA - December JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences JO - EPESS PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2587-1730 SP - 36 EP - 42 VL - 11 LA - en AB - The focus inthis short study is to clarify the soft skills development by the emotionalintelligence standpoint purposing for generate the first-class human capital.Discussion on issues of Malaysian’s development scenario, the importance ofemotional intelligence and the importance of soft skills will discuss indetail. The year 2020 is targeted by Malaysia to becoming a developed countrywith our own way. The exact aspiration is to develop the ideal human capital inbalance with the emotional intelligence and acceptable mindset fitting the wayof life from one generation to one generation. The stable country’s developmentin politic, economic and social field are significant to human value asmentioned in Maslow’s theories. Many of world civilizations always noted by thebest achievement in the fact of physically facilities, infrastructures, levelof literacy, stable economic status and political that able to influence theworld order. Unfortunately, some of world society lives in absent of holisticvalue, inconsiderate, depression and lack of religion grasp. HistoricallyMalaysia has been colonized by European around 446 years. Some of social, economyand political patterns influenced the Malaysians way of living. Some actionsshould be considered to preserve our valuable traditions, norms, cultureinherited by our relatives from different demographical background. Thosevalues supposed as the truly image of first class human capital incorporatedwith the developing and generating the art of emotional intelligence in softskills among Malaysian students. KW - Emotional intelligence KW - Soft skills KW - Generate KW - Human capital CR - Bar-On, R. (2000). Emotional and Social Intelligence: Insights from The Emotional Quotient Inventory. Bar-On, & J. D. A. Parker (Eds.). The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence (1st ed., pp. 368–388). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. New York: Bantam Book. Habibah Elias & Noran Fauziah Yaakub (1997). Psikologi Personaliti. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur. K. T. Strongman (1978). The Psychology of Emotion. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is Emotional Intelligence? In P. Salovey, & D. Sluyter (Eds.), Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. (2000). Models of Emotional Intelligence. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), Salovey, P., Mayer, J. D., & Caruso, D. R. (2002). The Positive Psychology of Emotional Intelligence. In C. R. Snyder, & S. J. Lopes (Eds.). Handbook of Positive Psychology (pp. 159–171). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/article/484798 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/576702 ER -