2. Emotional Intelligence In Venezuelan Students In High School And College

Abstract

Knowledge of our students' emotional abilities and the factors that influence them will improve the teaching and learning process. The present research aims to diagnose the emotional abilities of Venezuelan High School and university students to determine relationships between emotional abilities and the effects of gender, geographic context and age in these emotional abilities. We have done research with field design. The levels of research were exploratory, descriptive and correlational. The population was made up of students of High School education and university. The sample was constituted by 441 students. A questionnaire of emotions was the instrument of data collection. The main findings of the research reveal the existence of significant statistical differences between students' emotional abilities by gender, there is a statistically significant relationship between emotional abilities and emotional skills of selfcontrol and social competence were the least favored