Title Democracy as a Worth Living Environment and Law Enforcement: What is the Role of Emotional Intelligence?
Authors Zuzevičiūtė, Vaiva ; Jatautaitė, Dileta ; Butrimė, Edita
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Is Part of International Journal of Environmental Sciences.. [S.l.] : Integrated Publishing Association. 2025, vol. 11, no. 17, p. 2750-2758.. eISSN 2229-7359
Keywords [eng] democracy ; emotional intelligence ; environment worth living ; law enforcement
Abstract [eng] The aim of this paper is to present the dominant concepts of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and to outline the main theoretical considerations on the role and development of EI in relation to democracy, as an environment worth living. The emphasis is on contextualizing these theoretical concepts within the framework of specific empirical data. The empirical data was collected during the 1 quarter of 2024, under the framework of the POL-COM (KA220-VET - Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training project: A developmental and educational platform and gamified tools for training police officers and similar professionals, with respect to communications) project, where members of the public were invited to share their opinion on contemporary communication with and of law enforcement officers. Methods of critical analyses of references, theoretical considerations, and empirical study, involving respondents – members of the public in the Republic of Lithuania, were used for the development of this paper. The findings revealed that the Lithuanian public holds a general positive perception of law enforcement. A large proportion of the respondents in the sample reported not having encountered the police; those who had experienced interactions with the police assessed them positively, which serves as an argument for a relatively good state of affairs in the state, the general environment and democracy.
Published [S.l.] : Integrated Publishing Association
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2025
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