Desarrollo de la Inteligencia Emocional en la adolescencia: un estudio transversal y longitudinal
The aim of this study was to analyse the development of the different dimensions of emotional intelligence in adolescents over one school year and in a cross-sectional study involving 484 adolescents of both sexes from the six school years between year 1 of Spanish secondary school (age 12-13) and year 2 of the Spanish Baccalaureate (age 17-18). Participants were administered the Spanish version of the <em>Emotional Quotient Inventory: Young Version Short </em>(Caraballo & Villegas, 2001). Consistently with most previous research, the findings indicate that, except for the <em>stress management</em> dimension in the female sample group, none of the dimensions of emotional intelligence undergo substantial changes in relation to age.