La inteligencia emocional y el desempeño académico en la asignatura de ciencias naturales de los estudiantes de sexto grado de educación general básica de la Unidad Educativa “Albert Einstein”, del cantón Píllaro

Abstract

The group of skills that human beings have to manage their mood and understand that of others is called emotional intelligence. The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic performance in the subject of Natural Sciences of the sixth grade students of Basic General Education of the “Albert Einstein” Educational Unit, in the Píllaro canton. It should be noted that it is part of the research line of “Social and educational behavior”. This research work was carried out in a population of 32 students, a Mixed-Qualiquantitative approach was presented; with field, bibliographic and documentary modality; descriptive level; non-experimental correlational design. Likewise, the techniques used were: the survey and the test applied to the students. In conclusion, emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize both your own and others' feelings, for the timely management of emotions, and this is related to the performance that each of the students performs to achieve the objectives set in the academic field. In this way, the greater emotional intelligence, the better academic performance.