Social and emotional intelligence: myths and reality

The article is concerned with analysis of social and emotional intelligence as types of intelligence. It points main features of constructs in accordance with which test can be called intellectual independent from object's specificity for understanding which test is directed. There was made an analysis of phenomena closed to social and emotional intelligence: person's level of emotionality and level of socialization, indications of personality related to emotional and social fields of psychic functioning. There was detailed the types of mental phenomena for measuring which three different kind of construct and appropriate three kinds of tests are required to be derive