Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship with Levels of Social Anxiety and Stress in Adolescents

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 May 25;15(6):1073. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061073.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to extend the research on the relationships between emotional intelligence and various indicators of subjective well-being in adolescents, such as stress and social anxiety. The existence of differences in stress and social anxiety as a function of an emotional intelligence score is also analyzed. A total of 505 Spanish adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 participated in the study. The results obtained support the existence of a positive relationship between trait emotional intelligence and subjective well-being. Likewise, the existence of a negative association between emotional intelligence and stress, and emotional intelligence and social anxiety, is confirmed. These results are consistent with other similar works based on adolescent samples.

Keywords: adolescence; emotional intelligence; social anxiety; stress; well-being.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anxiety / epidemiology*
  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Child
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Emotional Intelligence*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Spain / epidemiology
  • Stress, Psychological / epidemiology*
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology