El concepto de inteligencia emocional y su relación con la salud mental. Estado del arte

Abstract

The objective of this research was to develop a state of the art on the concept of emotional intelligence that accounts for the different conceptions, associated factors and their relationship with positive mental health. For this, 21 documents were reviewed. Emotional Intelligence is considered, the ability to establish an adequate intrapsychic and social relationship, whose basic component is inherited, although susceptible to improve and change; whose first aspect is understood as the set of skills that focus on the socio - emotional awareness of oneself and the acquisition of independence, as a means of knowing and understanding others; and the second, as the skills that involve understanding other individuals, their motivations and emotions, focusing on social interaction and the proper handling of conflicts, so that everyone can satisfy their need for validation and interdependence. From this theoretical review it can be deduced that emotional intelligence is related to mental health in three large dimensions, in intrapsychic, when considering the aspects of intrapersonal intelligence; the relational, to recognize the aspects of social intelligence and the projective to consider that the emotionally intelligent individual is provided with adaptability and coping more easily, optimizing functional capacity and achieving goals.