psychosocial factors at work and emotional intelligence in nursing education of a public university in Mexico

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is a social intelligence identifying the ability to adjust one self’s emotions with others. Emotional intelligence is considered as an important characteristic for nurses. The aim of this research was to assess the emotional intelligence of nursing students and its relation with work psychosocial factors. This study investigated the relation among the emotional intelligence of nursing students and its relation with work psychosocial factors. Methodology: This was a descriptive correlation study. It was questioned 232 students of first educational years of the basic career and nurse professionals of a public university. To assess the emotional intelligence, we used Trait Meta- Mood Scale (TMMS-24) of Fernandez-Berrocal et al 2004, which includes 24 questions in 5 categories and Work Psychosocial Scale (WPS) of Tous- Pallarès. Results: significant relation among the adjustment to the content of the task and to the personal relations as factors was found work psychosocial factors with the dimension clarity of the Emotional Intelligence. There was no significant relation between attention y reparation. The majority of the participating reported to have good emotional development of intelligence and to perceive few you mismatch for the psychosocial factors of the job. Conclusions: the emotional intelligence develops with the social interaction and the modulation of personal variables, for which the relation of the work psychosocial factors they will be risk in the measurement that the personnel of the health be prepared or not to confront them.