La inteligencia emocional y su relación con el autoconcepto en adolescentes

Abstract

Emotional intelligence was initially presented as a form of intelligence capable of affecting success in people's lives to a greater extent than intellectual or cognitive skills, with this the IQ, in a sense, took a back seat, to currently give more importance to factors related to the emotional field, such as being able to empathize with others to achieve optimal social relations or to know one's own feelings and use them effectively (Mesa et al., 2015). For its part, the self-concept has been studied by different fields and knowledge, gestated through philosophical processes concerning the questioning Who am I, this is how this turns out to be the notion that an individual possesses in terms of characteristics, adjectives used to define himself (Gaeta & Cavazos, 2017), this construct plays a decisive and primordial role in the development of personality (Esnaola et al., 2008). Consequently, the present research work was developed with the objective of determining whether there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and self-concept in adolescents, a correlational and cross-sectional project, which involved the participation of 108 high school students of the "Patria" fiscal educational unit of the city of Latacunga.xv The BarOn Emotional Intelligence Inventory (I-CE) was used for the emotional intelligence variable, while the Self-Concept Form 5 test was used for self-concept. The methodology applied was based on a quantitative approach, since the information extracted from the instruments for the statistical analysis was compared by means of Spearman's rho test, to obtain the corresponding correlation. The results indicate a slight negative relationship between the intrapersonal dimension of emotional intelligence with academic/work self-concept and social self-concept, likewise between the interpersonal dimension with academic/work self-concept and physical selfconcept, and the general mood dimension with family self-concept, finally there is a statistically significant difference of self-concept in relation to sex, being the physical the most prevalent in men.