Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescents

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the association between of the dimensions of emotional intelligence (attention, clarity, and repair) and different levels of perceived happiness (low, medium, and high) in adolescents. The sample consists of 646 students in the first, second, third, and fourth years of Secondary Education, 47.5% females and 52.5% males, between 12 and 17 years of age. The instruments used were the Spanish version of the Trait Meta Mood Scale-24 Questionnaire to measure perceived emotional intelligence and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. Multinomial logistic regression analysis and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis were performed. The results suggest that as the capacity of understanding and regulation of emotional intelligence increases, happiness also increases. Adolescence is seen as an ideal time in life to encourage the development of emotional capacities that contribute to the greater happiness of individuals. In this way, the present study stresses the need to carry out practices leading to improvements in the adolescents’ emotional intelligence and therefore increase their happiness and emotional well-being.

I’m Not Good for Anything and That’s Why I’m Stressed: Analysis of the Effect of Self-Efficacy and Emotional Intelligence on Student Stress Using SEM and QCA

“…On the one hand, the results showed that high levels of selfefficacy would be related to low levels of perceived stress, in consonance with previous studies (Karademas and Kalantzi-Azizi, 2004;Zhao et al, 2015;Dominguez-Lara, 2018) and thus confirming hypothesis 2. On the other hand, the components of EI should be taken into account separately, since it has been seen that higher levels of EA were positively related to perceived stress, following the line of previous studies (Guerra-Bustamante et al, 2019;Martínez-Marín and Martínez, 2019) and supporting hypothesis 1 (Davis and Nichols, 2016;Villanueva et al, 2017). Otherwise, as indicated by previous studies (Bryant and Malone, 2015;Perera and DiGiacomo, 2015;Schönfeld et al, 2016;Zeidner and Matthews, 2016), EC was positively related to perceived stress, but ER did not do as expected, which partially supports hypothesis 1 (the greater the repair and EC, the lower the level of stress).…”

“…It would be interesting to continue working along these lines in future research due to the difference between the components of EI on stress levels as well as due to the complex behavior of EA indicated by previous studies (Guerra-Bustamante et al, 2019).…”

“…Low scores in the different components of EI are related to high levels of perceived stress (Austin et al, 2010), but in the case of EA, this relation is more complex. Even when EA was classified in three levels: low, adequate, and excessive attention to emotions (inverted U-effects), no significant association between the levels of EA and perceived stress was found (Guerra-Bustamante et al, 2019).…”

“…For this case, high and low levels of EA would indicate inadequate levels of EI, since excessive EA can lead to the so-called rumination. For this reason, these three dimensions should all be considered in relation with EI separately (Guerra-Bustamante et al, 2019;Martínez-Marín and Martínez, 2019). According to this, the literature suggests (Augusto-Landa et al, 2011;Serrano and Andreu, 2016) that while the EA dimension maintains a positive relationship with perceived stress (Davis and Nichols, 2016;Villanueva et al, 2017), the dimensions of EC and emotional repair (ER) show a negative relationship with the mentioned perceived stress (Aguilar et al, 2014;Ruiz-Aranda et al, 2014;Bryant and Malone, 2015;Perera and DiGiacomo, 2015;Schönfeld et al, 2016;Zeidner and Matthews, 2016).…”

Benefits of Physical Activity and Its Associations with Resilience, Emotional Intelligence, and Psychological Distress in University Students from Southern Spain

“…The study of Castillo, Fisher, and Dávila [44] which related emotional intelligence with stress and depression factors, similarly to that done in the present study, also showed inverse relationships, with high levels of emotional intelligence predicting low levels of psychological distress. Thus, happiness may increase as a function of greater ability to understand and regulate emotional changes [45].…”