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Content Analysis Of Research In The Field Of Emotional Intelligence In Military Leadership

  • 1 University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic

Abstract

The article presents a literature review on the development of emotional intelligence in military leadership from 2020–2025, providing a comprehensive and objective view of the research area. Emotional intelligence and military leadership are a connection that is currently appearing in research activity and doctrinal army documents. The authors try to find and evaluate the benefits and limits of EI in the field of preparing military personnel. The study aims to identify research topics and suggest further research options for military leadership. For objective processing, the method of content analysis according to the established criteria and the method of synthesis were used to identify the main research.

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