Percepción de estudiantes respecto a la creación de Cátedra Abierta en Educación Emocional para potenciar felicidad

Abstract

This research explored the perception of students of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca, about the need to create an open chair of emotional education to enhance happiness; this study identified the concept of happiness and ways to encourage it, as well as understanding the knowledge that subjects of research have about emotions, the open chair and the value of self-control of emotions through emotional education. The study participants are 24 students enrolled in cycles between the fourth and tenth, of the three careers: clinical, educational and social; the study has a qualitative approach, with a phenomenological type design and exploratory scope. The technique applied was focus group. The most relevant results or findings point to the emerging categories, subcategories and categories expressed in the analysis of information such as happiness, emotional education, emotions, open chair, as well as needs, knowledge, beneficiaries, among others, achieve the objectives set out and answer the research questions, and are also interrelated and complement each other. In conclusion, the need to create an open chair of emotional education to foster happiness for students in the psychology faculty of the University of Cuenca is evident.