Uso del diario de emociones como estrategia educativa para estimular la inteligencia emocional de los estudiantes de 8vo EGB

Abstract

Abstract: Emotional intelligence, due to its importance for an individual to be able to recognize his own emotions, control them and also to be able to understand the feelings of the members of his/herclose contexts, has generated an expectation in the way of teaching students, so itcan addresstheir needs and different learning styles. It has been postulated that there are different techniques or didactic tools that make it possible to increase typesof intelligence within the educational context. Therefore, the present work was carried out with the objective of determining the incidence of the emotion diary technique to specifically stimulate emotional intelligence. The study was developed with 39 students of 8th General Basic Education of the Paulo VI Educational Unit, where emotional intelligence was assessed usingthe Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue-SF) (Short Version) byCooper and Petrides (2010), and at the same time the levelof satisfaction of the subjects with respect to the use of the technique was evaluated.