Inteligencia emocional y felicidad en docentes durante la pandemia covid-19, Unidad Educativa Ricardo Muñoz Chávez

Abstract

The covid-19 virus pandemic, worldwide, caused drastic measures to be taken to save people's physical health. Despite the mandatory confinement and isolation, the school cycles continued their development through virtually. In this way, the teachers established this teaching model in their homes, thus fulfilling more than one specific role in the same physical space; producing various conflicts that influenced his mental health. The general objective of describing the dimensions of emotional intelligence and happiness factors in the teachers of the Ricardo Muñoz Chávez School in Cuenca, city of Azuay province, during the covid-19 pandemic in the period 2021. For which, the research was developed under a quantitative approach of non-experimental design, cross-sectional design and descriptive scope; a population made up of 40 teachers, between men and woman from 24 to 58 years of age, was studied. For the collection of information, a sociodemographic record and the Scales were used: WLEIS-S, adapted to Spanish by Extremera, Rey and Sánchez-Álvarez, which measures emotional intelligence (EI) by means of four dimensions, and the Lima Alarcón happiness scale, which measures levels of happiness by means of four factors. And, for the data analysis, the statistical program SPSS 25.0 was used, showing that, in women, the regulation of emotions prevails while in men the use of emotions dimension predominates. Likewise, in the results of the happiness scale, the teachers who were in a consensual union, without a partner and divorced showed higher scores in relation to married people and people with a partner, contradicting previous research.