Inteligencia emocional en estudiantes de primer y último ciclo de la carrera de psicología periodo 2023-2024

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, accept, and guide our emotions appropriately, favors the correct management of social, academic, and work skills, and prevents the presence of disruptive behaviors, anxiety, depression, stress, and consumption of substances. The need to manage Emotional Intelligence skills becomes imperative in all professions, and much more so in those where we work with emotional or cognitive and behavioral problems of people going through a situation of vulnerability, such as in Psychology. The objective of this descriptive quantitative study, with a non-experimental design and cross-sectional design, is to describe the dimensions of Emotional Intelligence in students in the first and last cycle of the psychology degree using a population of 233 students. The Wong-Law Emotional Emotional Inteligence scale (WLEIS-S), a Spanish version, and a sociodemographic survey were applied. The results reveal that in psychology students at the University of Cuenca, the dimension of Interpersonal Perception has higher scores in the ninth cycle. However, Emotional Regulation shows a lower score in the first cycle, suggesting the presence of difficulties in the constructive management of emotions. Furthermore, when considering sociodemographic variables, such as age, gender, and place of origin, differences are observed in the EI scores in the two groups.