scholarly journals Emotional intelligence as a predictor of students’ psychological health

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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana М. Shirko ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 1010-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Newton ◽  
Stephen T.T. Teo ◽  
David Pick ◽  
Marcus Ho ◽  
Drew Thomas

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of emotional intelligence (EI) as a buffer to job stressors on employee adjustment. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the job demands resources model, this study examined 306 nurses in the healthcare sector to test a model of job stressors, EI, and their interactions nursing adjustment outcomes (i.e. job satisfaction and psychological health). The hypothesized model predicted that higher trait EI would act as a buffer to the potential negative effects of stressors on employee adjustment. Two-way moderated hierarchical multiple regression analyses was used to test the model in addition to interaction effects. Findings – The results of this study revealed mixed results in terms of the expected main effects of EI and the five significant moderating effects. While some interactions support a buffering hypothesis; contrary to expectations, a buffering effect was also found for those with low EI. Research limitations/implications – The findings enable a better understanding how EI moderates the effects of stressors on important work outcomes in healthcare. Additionally, the implications from this study allows healthcare administrators and managers to improve staffing and work outcomes through identifying and selecting staff who are characterized by higher trait EI or alternatively, train staff in self-awareness and dealing with emotional behaviors. Practical implications – HR managers could focus on selecting staff, who possessed higher trait EI for roles where overload and ambiguity are endemic to the job performed. Training could also be used to enhance EI among managers to focus on self-awareness and dealing with emotional behaviors. Originality/value – This study makes several contributions to understanding how EI moderates the relationships between work stressors and workplace adjustment and wellbeing.


Author(s):  
Estefanía Estévez ◽  
Teresa I. Jiménez

Abstract.VIOLENCE IN ADOLESCENTS AND EMOTIONAL REGULATIONAggression towards peers is a problem with an important presence in the secondary classrooms in most of the countries of the world, and that interferes notably in the process of teaching / learning and in the development of those involved, with consequences always negative for their wellbeing, psychological health and social relations. In the last decades, there has been a significant increase in the importance given to the management of emotion, in what has come to be called the affection revolution, a line of research that comes to emphasize that the presence of behavioral and psychopathological alterations is not so much related to excessive negative or positive emotion, but rather to the poor ability to regulate that emotion in a way that is healthy and facilitates adjustment to demands. In relation to aggression and victimization in children and adolescents, there are hardly any studies that analyze the role of emotional regulation in explaining these problems. In the present research we analyze the emotional regulation in adolescents involved in acts of school violence, both as aggressors and victims, taking as a model the theoretical approach that has the greatest theoretical and empirical solidity in relation to the regulation of emotions and, in particular, to the emotional intelligence, proposed by Mayer and Salovey in 1997. According to this model, emotional intelligence is the set of four abilities that we examine in the present work: 1) emotional perception: ability to perceive own and others’ emotions; 2) emotional assimilation: ability to generate, use and feel emotions to communicate feelings; 3) emotional understanding: ability to understand information of an emotional nature; and 4) emotional regulation: ability to be open to feelings, monitor and alter them in order to facilitate personal growth.Key words: adolescence, violence, victimization, school, emotional regulationResumen.La violencia entre iguales es un problema con una presencia importante en las aulas de secundaria en la mayor parte de los países del mundo, y que interfiere notablemente en el proceso deenseñanza/aprendizaje y en el desarrollo evolutivo de los implicados, con consecuencias siempre negativas para su bienestar, salud psicológica y relaciones sociales. En las últimas décadas, se ha producido un incremento importante en la importancia dada al manejo de la emoción, en lo que se ha venido a denominar la revolución del afecto, una línea de investigación que viene a destacar que la presencia de alteraciones conductuales y psicopatológicas no está tan relacionada con una excesiva emoción negativa o positiva, sino con la escasa habilidad para regular dicha emoción de manera que resulte saludable y facilite el ajuste a las demandas. En relación con la agresión y la victimización en niños y adolescentes, no existen apenas estudios que analicen el rol de la regulación emocional en la explicación de estos problemas. En la presente investigación analizamos la regulación emocional en adolescentes implicados en actos de violencia escolar, tanto como agresores como víctimas, tomando como modelo el enfoque teórico que mayor solidez teórica y empírica presenta en relación a la regulación de las emociones y, en particular, a la inteligencia emocional, propuesto por Mayer y Salovey en 1997. Según este modelo, la inteligencia emocional es el conjunto de cuatro habilidades que examinamos en el presente trabajo: 1) percepción emocional: habilidad de percibir emociones propias y de otros; 2) asimilación emocional: habilidad de generar, usar y sentir las emociones para comunicar sentimientos; 3) comprensión emocional: habilidad de entender información de tipo emocional; y 4) regulación emocional: habilidad de estar abierto a los sentimientos, vigilarlos y alterarlos con el objetivo de facilitar el crecimiento personal.Palabras clave: adolescencia, violencia, victimización, escuela, regulación emocional


Author(s):  
Paulo N. Lopes

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a useful framework with which to map emotional skills. There is evidence EI explains well-being, psychological health, the quality of social relationships, and job performance. However, measuring EI using ability tests remains a major challenge. Here, I review theory and research on EI, discuss the strengths and limitations of different models, and suggest possibilities for future research and for the development of new measures. I argue that examining areas of substantive overlap and interdependence between EI, IQ, personality, and motivation is important to achieve a full understanding of how emotionally intelligent behavior contributes to positive functioning. Moreover, I outline implications for developing EI and fostering emotionally intelligent behavior in organizations at various levels of analysis. In particular, I argue that it may be most effective to infuse EI training into team projects aimed at addressing organizational challenges related to innovation and change.


2007 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 923-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Othman Alkhadher

This summary investigated correlations between emotional intelligence and psychological health amongst 191 Kuwaiti undergraduate students in psychology, 98 men and 93 women ( M age = 20.6 yr., SD = 2.8). There were two measures of emotional intelligence, one based on the ability model, the Arabic Test for Emotional Intelligence, and the other on the mixed model, the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. Participants' psychological health was assessed using scales from the Personality Assessment Inventory. A weak relationship between the two types of emotional intelligence was found. A correlation for scores on the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire with the Personality Assessment Inventory was found but not with those of the Arabic Test for Emotional Intelligence. Regression analysis indicated scores on Managing Emotions and Self-awareness accounted for most of the variance in the association with the Personality Assessment Inventory. Significant sex differences were found only on the Arabic Test for Emotional Intelligence; women scored higher than men. On Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire measures, men had significantly higher means on Managing Emotions and Self-motivation. However, no significant differences were found between the sexes on the Total Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire scores.


2016 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 253-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Noriah Othman ◽  
Muhammad Saiful Bahri Yusof ◽  
Adawiyah Md Din ◽  
Lily Azuwani Zakaria

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