Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de enfermería de una Universidad privada de Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: Introduction: Nursing students prove that throughout their university education they face different situations, they adopt new roles, so that this creates feelings and emotions, whose positivity or negativity will depend of the convenient performance of interpersonal and intrapersonal situations in the step of their training. Objective: Analyze emotional intelligence and performance academic of nursing students from a private university in Ecuador. Method: Research with a quantitative approach, correlational and cutting type cross. The sample was 116 nursing students, from first to seventh cycle enrolled in the period April-August 2022. Result: It was determined that students have excellent emotional capacity developed with a percentage of 97.4%, and a positive academic performance with 46.6%, and very positive with 41.3%. Conclusion: No correlation was found between the levels of emotional intelligence with academic performance, since in EI Students have an excellently developed emotional capacity to in such a way that they reflect an adequate development of attention skills, understand and regulate your emotions.