Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence in university students of the city of Ayacucho

• Main Authors: Josselyn Miguel-Rojas, Edwin Jesús Vílchez-Quevedo, Mario Reyes-Bossio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica – IPOPS 2018-05-01
• Series: Interacciones: Revista de Avances en Psicología
• Subjects: Emotional intelligence; spirituality; university; correlation; self-awareness; regulation
• Online Access: http://ojs.revistainteracciones.com/index.php/ojs/article/view/104/html

This research aims to find the existing correlation between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Spirituality in university students of the city of Ayacucho. We opted for a quantitative method, of correlational type transactional design. To this end, we had a sample of 195 university students from two private Ayacucho universities, of which 41% are male and 59% are female, with an age range between 18 and 38 years (M = 20.43). The Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 Questionnaire and the Spirituality Questionnaire; both adapted to the Peruvian population. We analyzed the correlations of the dimensions of both; obtaining positive correlations between all dimensions of IE with the dimensions of Spirituality; so it is concluded that both constructs are correlated. Likewise, the analyzes carried out show that there are significant differences in the explicit assessment of spirituality according to sex; specifically women score more in this regard. It can also be highlighted that the self-awareness dimension of the Spirituality questionnaire presents the strongest correlations with the Emotional Intelligence dimensions.