Emotional intelligence and its relationship with stress coping strategies in students from Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo.

Abstract

This article was designed to analyze emotional intelligence and its relationship with stress coping strategies which were analyzed in the SPSS data processor, the research was carried out based on quantitative methodology, in order to carry out the development of the objectives, had a correlational-causal design; The sample consisted of 384 students from high school No. 1, through a non-probabilistic sample, because not all had the same probability of participating, to evaluate the variables respectively, the BarOn Emotional Intelligence Inventory was applied: version for young people (7-18 years) and the Assessment Instrument for Stress Coping Strategies; The statistical procedure was the Spearman Rho correlation, in the results it is revealed that there is a significant correlation in the strategies focused on problems, yielding a score of .36 (<.01), as well as the strategies focused on emotions with a level of .41 (p <.01), on the other hand, a non-significant correlation is found in strategies focused on avoidance with a correlation of .16 (p <.01). It is proposed in future research to develop studies with larger samples to obtain significant statistical ranges.