Nivel y dimensiones de inteligencia emocional en estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, value, express and regulate one's own emotions and those of others, promoting emotional and intellectual growth; The university is an educational environment that focuses on academic and scientific aspects, however, has left aside emotional education, exploration and action given its importance in human development. This research follows a non-experimental cross-sectional design with a descriptive scope with a quantitative approach; whose general objective is to describe the level and dimensions of emotional intelligence that the students of the careers of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca have; the real population consisted of 213 men and 375 women, whose ages range from 18 to 26 years or more; We used a sociodemographic form and the WLEIS-S Scale that measures the dimensions of intrapersonal, interpersonal, assimilation and emotional regulation. The inclusion criteria were male and female students enrolled in the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca; and the exclusion was students who voluntarily did not agree to their participation through informed consent. The results showed that students have a high and medium level IE with predominance of the use of emotions dimension and the lowest dimension is the regulation of emotions, evidencing a lack of control over them. It is concluded that the population is within a sustainable level of EI, however, it is recommended the implementation of emotional competence programs, emphasized in the university students who obtained a low level of IE, this will serve as an element of emotional protection before possible risk factors, which allows to improve the emotional skills, fundamental in the professional exercise of the role of the psychologist.