interviewed participants. Emotion, self-awareness, gender, personality, maturity, and
storytelling are some of the manifestations that are further described in Table 4.5, below.
This theme’s essence is that there is no uniform lens through which to view the
maturation of EI over the course of one’s career. The array of factors evidenced in Table
4.5 highlight the subjective nature of how EI development is shaped.
Table 4. 5
4.5 Representative Theme 1 Statements
Participant Descriptive Code In Vivo Statement
Participant A3
INTELLIGENCEEIRELATE
“people have emotions and most people have an
intelligence factor together is not necessarily always thought of”– but trying to put the two and two
A8 SELFAWAREINTELLIGENCE “I actually haven’t been giving a lot of thoughemotional intelligence per se as much as a set of t to
attributes”
R1 GENDER “men in particular didn’t take kindly to having a woman take over their facility”
A5 LEARNING “learned the lesson by exception (what not to do)”
A5 PERSONALITY “still naturally an introvert ... (but) I can overcome
the energy consumption that occurs when you put an
introvert into a public arena”
Participant A5
PERSONALITY
“my personality, my ability to get things done took a
giant leap forward”Participant A8
EIPRESSURE
“was provided the opportunities to take on
successfully more challenging environments”
R1 DEVELOPMENT “the big thing was going to graduate school and then
having experiences like assignments”
A3 EMOTION “if you bring the emotion into it, you lose the
audience ... it doesn’t mean that you can’t have those
emotions ... but if you let them come out too much
you’re going to lose your effectiveness”
A5 ROTATION
EXPERIENCEDEVELOPMENT (^)
“certainly the most valuable experience that I carried
into my civilian career was the the education and the experience”joint assignments and
Participant R4
SELFAWARE
“it matured me and gave me a lot more self-
confidence”
A9 MATURITY “there are some people who are not capable of
maturing their emotional intelligence”
R8 SELFAWARE “I think you have to both be able to see the positive
when that’s brought out, but also see the negative and