Evaluación de la Inteligencia Emocional en el alumnado de Educación Primaria y Educación Secundaria

Abstract

Emotional education is a fundamental resource to recognise and learn how to manage our emotions, but first, it is necessary to analyse them. This is so that, students can develop a number of social skills to manage them. The objective of this research is to analyse the emotional characteristics in the student cohort of year 5, 6, 7 and 8 from a town in Granada. Method: We applied the TMMS-24 questionnaire to 444 students from Santa Fe (Granada), of a population of 475 students. The psychometrics measuring data shows that it is valid and reliable. Results: The results were analysed using the statistical program IBM SPSS 23, and the majority of students, who answered the questionnaire, showed an adequate Emotional Intelligence level. Conclusions: The researching results shows that the majority of the students have an appropriate Emotional Intelligence. A satisfactory Emotional Intelligence is key to have an appropriate management of emotions.