Inteligencia emocional en estudiantes de psicología.

Abstract

This project describes the skills in Emotional Intelligence, based on the Mayer and Salovey Model, which are applied to first semester students of the psychology program. The objective of this one isdescribe the skills in Emotional Intelligence of psychology students in the first semester of the University of Pamplona, through a phenomenological design. To develop this investigation, the sample was used for convenience, were applied as information collection instruments to 6 students from that semester, who participated a semi-structured individual interview where the family and social context was taken into account, and similarly a focus group, where the academy context was taken into account. From the above, an analysis matrix is prepared according to the answer of participants to determinetheir performance against theassessed skill, and this way an analysis was carried out regarding the differences and similarities according to gender. Taken into account the above, the result is that the most developed skill, in womenis Emotional Perceptionand Emotional Knowledge. And in the case of man, the skills more develop was Emotional perception, Emotional Facilitation of Thinking and Emotional Knowledge.