The Relationship Between Coping Strategies and Emotional Intelligence

A Study of Emotional Intelligence and Coping Strategies in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

“…The positive relationship of emotional intelligence elements, such as problemsolving and social support seeking, are consistent with the findings of some studies. These results confirm the findings of the present research and conforms to the results and necessities of findings of previous research in relation with EI [8,9,11,16]. Through adjusting and managing emotional productivity or facilitating the perception of emotional evaluation, those with increased emotional intelligence used more of the problem-focused coping styles and positive emotional-focused coping, and less of the negative emotionalfocused coping styles.…”

“…Specifically, researchers assert that employees' EI can predict work related outcomes, such as job satisfaction and behaviors, career commitment and individual health behaviors and stress [4][5][6][7][8]. That leader EI contributes to the followers' satisfaction and behaviors and individuals who had a higher level of emotional intelligence exhibited lower level of career commitment and lower level of perceived stress.…”

“…EI has been linked to coping [8,9], particularly rational/problem focused coping. The link between EI and stress is also not well established in the nursing students.…”

“…The link between EI and stress is also not well established in the nursing students. Coping strategies are defined as constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external or internal demands that are far beyond the existing resources of the person [8]. Coping strategies refer to the specific efforts, both behavioral and psychological, that people employ to master, tolerate, reduce or minimize stressful events [9].…”

“…Moradi et al [8] explored the relationship between coping strategies and emotional intelligence of nursing students. The finding of their study showed that emotional intelligence had a positive relationship with problem-solving coping strategies, social support, cognitive appraisal, and emotional inhibition of positive relationship and has negative significant relationship with physical control coping strategies.…”