Inteligencia emocional e impulsividad en estudiantes de bachillerato

Abstract

This research considers it important to study the adolescent population, since they are in a stage of both physical and psychological changes, so two variables have been taken into account that can explain and predict circumstances that this population may go through, such as emotional intelligence, which allows perceiving different feelings, either their own or other people's, and on the other hand, impulsivity, in which the person acts hastily in a situation. Thus, the main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and impulsivity in high school students. The research approach was quantitative, with a non-experimental and cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 111 students from a public school in the city of Ambato, Ecuador. The Barron's Emotional Intelligence Inventory and Barrat's Impulsivity Scale were used for the evaluation. Regarding the results, it was evidenced that most of the evalu ated population presents a well-developed level of emotional intelligence; on the other hand, in the impulsivity evaluation it was found that most of the participants present non - significant impulsivity; finally, a slight negative correlation was reported between the study variables with a small effect size (r=-0.389), p <.001, r2=0.151). Therefore, it is concluded that the higher the levels of emotional intelligence, the lower the levels of impulsivity in the study sample.