Estimating the effect of emotional intelligence in wellbeing among priests

  1. María Purificación Vicente-Galindo 1
  2. Helena López-Herrera 2
  3. Ignacio Pedrosa 3
  4. Javier Suárez-Álvarez 3
  5. María Purificación Galindo-Villardón 1
  6. Eduardo García-Cueto 3
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  2. 2 Universidad Iberoamericana
  3. 3 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

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Revista:
International journal of clinical and health psychology

ISSN: 1697-2600

Ano de publicación: 2017

Volume: 17

Número: 1

Páxinas: 46-55

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1016/J.IJCHP.2016.10.001 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Outras publicacións en: International journal of clinical and health psychology

Resumo

Background/Objective: Emotional intelligence is a variable which has been the subject of significantly increased research in recent years. Relationships have been shown with both physical and psychological problems. The aim of this study is to analyse the direct and indirect effect that emotional intelligence exerts over the manifestation of physical and psychological clinical symptomatology and to severe disorders such as burnout syndrome in a professional group in which social function is fundamental. Method: So that, 881 Latin-American catholic priests (Mage=45.89; SDage=11.58) were evaluated using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24, the Maslach Burnout Inventory-22 and the General Health Questionnaire-28. Results: Using path analysis, emotional intelligence, especially Attention and Emotional Clarity, shows a high effect on psychological and somatic issues. Conclusions: Thus, both specific disorders and general well-being are related to emotional intelligence. Providing effective emotional intelligence training sessions seems to be able to reduce possible physical and emotional disorders.

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