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Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship with Levels of Social Anxiety and Stress in Adolescents

2018; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 15; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/ijerph15061073

1661-7827

Javier Cejudo, Débora Rodrigo-Ruiz, María Luz López-Delgado, Lidia Losada,

Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

The aim of this work is to extend the research on the relationships between emotional intelligence and various indicators of subjective well-being in adolescents, such as stress and social anxiety. The existence of differences in stress and social anxiety as a function of an emotional intelligence score is also analyzed. A total of 505 Spanish adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 participated in the study. The results obtained support the existence of a positive relationship between trait emotional intelligence and subjective well-being. Likewise, the existence of a negative association between emotional intelligence and stress, and emotional intelligence and social anxiety, is confirmed. These results are consistent with other similar works based on adolescent samples.