Estudio de la inteligencia emocional en una muestra de menores colombianos

Abstract

Emotional intelligence can be defined as the people ability to perceive the feelings appropriately and accurately, the ability to assimilate and understand them properly and the skill to control and modify our mood or the one of others (Mayer and Salovey, 1997; Mayer, Caruso and Salovey, 1999). Therefore, this ability is related to the individuals capacity of social and emotional adaptation Mogardo, 2007). In this sense, emotional intelligence has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Several authors have stood outmeaning to their role in criminals conduct (Matthews, Zeidner & Roberts, 2002) or antisocial behavior (Arce, Fariña, Novo and Vázquez, 2009), as well as the prediction risky conducts (Pueyo and López, 2005). Our aim in this paper is to study the influence of emotional intelligence in irregular behavior in a sample of Colombian children, based on the level of social risk. To do this, we apply the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS) (Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turkey and Palfai, 2002), minors aged between 14 and 18. Finally, we review the most relevant and of interest to guide the design and implementation of intervention programs.