Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence in university students of the city of Ayacucho

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, spirituality, university, correlation, self-awareness, regulation

Abstract

This research aims to find the existing correlation between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Spirituality in university students of the city of Ayacucho. We opted for a quantitative method, of correlational type transactional design. To this end, we had a sample of 195 university students from two private Ayacucho universities, of which 41% are male and 59% are female, with an age range between 18 and 38 years (M = 20.43). The Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 Questionnaire and the Spirituality Questionnaire; both adapted to the Peruvian population. We analyzed the correlations of the dimensions of both; obtaining positive correlations between all dimensions of IE with the dimensions of Spirituality; so it is concluded that both constructs are correlated. Likewise, the analyzes carried out show that there are significant differences in the explicit assessment of spirituality according to sex; specifically women score more in this regard. It can also be highlighted that the self-awareness dimension of the Spirituality questionnaire presents the strongest correlations with the Emotional Intelligence dimensions.

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Published
2018-05-01
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Miguel-Rojas, J., Vílchez-Quevedo, E., & Reyes-Bossio, M. (2018). Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence in university students of the city of Ayacucho. Interacciones, 4(2), 131-141. https://doi.org/10.24016/2018.v4n2.104
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