Emotional Intelligence among Undergraduate Medical Students at University of Baghdad

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to assess the level of emotional intelligence among undergraduate medicalstudents and to identify the relationship between the level of emotional intelligence and some demographicvariables of the students such as: academic year, gender, residency, and monthly income.Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional design that is initiated for the period of January 1st to May 1st,2018 on a sample consisted of (200) students which was selected by convenient sampling method from fourmedical colleges at University of Baghdad that are: College of medicine, college of dental medicine, collegeof pharmacy, and college of nursing. The used questionnaire is divided into two parts; one of them containsthe demographic variable of the students and the other one deals with the Scale of Emotional Intelligence(EIS). The data have been collected through the utilization of the self-administrative report as a mean of datacollection and analyzed by application of statistical package for social science IBM SPSS (v. 24).Results: The result revealed that student are showing moderate level of emotional intelligence (63.5%).A relationship was detected between students’ gender and his emotional intelligence, while there are nosignificant relationships between emotional intelligence and academic year, residency, and monthly income.Conclusions: The study concluded that students at medical colleges group are emotionally stable andemotionally intelligent. There is difference in gender of students with regard to emotional intelligence.Recommendations: The study recommended for conducting future related studies with various variablesand re-conducting the study on a large sample and different specialties is necessary