What Is… Emotional Intelligence — Mental Health @ Home

In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI) sounds like something that’s obviously good, useful, and important, and while that might be true when you consider it as a nebulous concept, when you dig a little bit and narrow it […]

What Is… Emotional Intelligence — Mental Health @ Home

What Is… the Psychology Behind Selfies — Mental Health @ Home

In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week, we’re going to look at the psychology behind selfies. Smartphones and social media have given rise to the age of the selfie, which was the 2013 Oxford Languages Word of the Year. Back in the not-so-distant day, selfies just […]

What Is… the Psychology Behind Selfies — Mental Health @ Home

What Is… Self-Esteem — Mental Health @ Home

In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is self-esteem. Self-esteem refers to the extent to which we perceive the various elements of our self-concept positively. It incorporates our physical self-image, how we feel about the things we’ve accomplished, how successful we consider ourselves to be […]

What Is… Self-Esteem — Mental Health @ Home