Inteligencia emocional durante la pandemia por COVID 19 en adolescentes de la Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Cristiano Israel, de Cuenca - Azuay, periodo 2021

Abstract

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a construct that has gained interest over the last decades, being the ability to perceive, assess and express emotions accurately, the ability to access and/or generate feelings that facilitate thinking; the ability to understand emotions and emotional awareness and the ability to regulate emotions promoting emotional and intellectual growth. It is estimated that the measures taken in the face of COVID 19 could have a direct impact on people's emotions, since multiple associated factors qualify it as an adversity of high psychosocial stress that triggers reactions of fear and anxiety, especially in adolescents, since this experience is crucial to the future of their emotional life. The general objective of this investigation was to describe EI during the COVID 19 pandemic according to biosociodemographic variables, in adolescents from Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Cristiana Israel of Cuenca - Azuay, in the period 2021. The study followed a quantitative approach, a type of non-experimental, cross-sectional and descriptive design. We worked with a sample of 93 students, of which 55 were able to participate in this study, through their parents consent and the teenagers assent. The instruments used were the WLEIS-S to assess the dimensions of EI and a biosociodemographic record to identify variables of interest for the study. The dimensions of EI in teenagers were described according to biosociodemographic variables in the COVID 19 pandemic, transcribed in a database which indicated that the dimension that predominated was the evaluation of the emotions of others, with a result of 5,18 (DE= 0,19). In addition, we described the level of EI which had a result of 4,97.