“…The obtained research results corroborate this hypothesis by explaining how internalizing problems maintain an inverse relationship with social skills and EI, i.e., the higher the scores for internalizing problems, the lower the scores that adolescents obtain for performing social skills and EI, and vice versa. These results indicate how social skills and EI may act as protectors of these internalizing problems, which agrees with former research (Bubic & Ivanisevic, 2016;Martínez-Martí & Ruch, 2017;Trickey, Siddaway, Meider-Stedman, Serpell, & Field, 2012) that indicated the relationship between internalizing problems and the social competence variables. Internalizing problems (depression, anxiety, social anxiety, somatic complaints, post-traumatic symptoms, and obsession-compulsion) have been previously interrelated in recent works (Campos et al, 2014;Senzik, Shäfer, Samson, Naumann, & Tuschen-Caffier, 2017), but these works did not analyze the importance of their relationship with EI and social skills, which the present research indicates.…”