Emotional intelligence in University students’ gender differences

Abstract

The objective of the present quantitative study was to know the difference in the level of emotional intelligence of the university students to establish possible socialization strategies in emotional competencies. The participants, selected through a non-random sampling, were 40 students of the Higher University Technical level, 15 women and 25 men, with ages between 18 and 22 years. The Trait Meta Mood-Sacale self-report test (TMMS24) was applied. The data was analyzed with the statistical program Spss 24 and the Pearson correlation test. The results show that there is no correlation between gender and emotional intelligence, but in females there are adequate levels of attention and emotional clarity and low emotional regulation, while men have low levels of attention and emotional clarity but high levels in emotional repair; also globally, women present a greater level of emotional intelligence, in relation to men. It concludes that there is a need to have comprehensive training in the curriculum that encompasses academic knowledge and emotional competences, because the development of emotional intelligence in students helps to shape full human beings and valuable workers.