Abstract
In this paper we focus on the role that Emotional Intelligence has on nursing. We pay attention to both students and professionals and the role emotional intelligence has on emotional self-concept and burnout. Our studies with nursing students yield positive relations between the Clarity and Emotional Repair components of Perceived Emotional Intelligence and all scales of the self-concept scale. On the other hand, nursing professionals that have clear feelings about their emotions and situations that occur, and are capable of dealing with those emotions, have lower levels of stress in their work. Also, those nurses who show a high ability to curtail their negative emotional states and prolong positive emotional states show higher levels of overall health than those individuals who have trouble regulating their emotions. Our results imply that the emotional and cognitive dimensions have to be taken into account in future training programs for nursing professionals and students
Highlights
The role of emotions in the formation of nursing professionals has been scarcely studied
They found that the responsibility of the profession, dealing with other people at work, problems of health, satisfaction with the amount of work, job security, psychological resistance and job satisfaction had a significant effect on emotional exhaustion, which is a component of burnout
We show the role that emotional intelligence has as a modulator variable of stress and as an important variable in nurses’ health
Summary
The role of emotions in the formation of nursing professionals has been scarcely studied. Horneffer [27] found that the dimensions of self-concept correlated with health behaviours and responses to promote health information From these results it may be deduced that the ability to manage one’s own emotions and recognize other people’s is especially useful in the practice of nursing. Our results indicate that the management of one’s own emotions, as well as the ability to regulate the emotional state, appear to be essential features in the formation of self-image and are important for these future health professionals. Our research team is deeply involved in creating these materials dealing with the skills of emotional intelligence in order to enhance attention to emotions, clarity and emotional repair, to promote social and emotional support of male and female future nurses, and to provide training in communication with non-experts in the field and interpersonal skills in general
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