Intelligence In Women Research Articles

Individual and group emotional intelligence measurement of sex differences and invariance for individual (WLEIS-S) and group (WEIP-S) emotional intelligence measurement scales

Different international research groups focus on the study of socio-emotional resources and tools to facilitate adequate management of daily challenges and demands among teachers. This allows for better personal and professional performance. One of these resources that has attracted most attention in recent decades has been that of emotional intelligence. In this regard, the present study set out to analyse the psychometric properties of trait emotional intelligence as a construct. For this purpose, the study focused on two EI measurement instruments. One of the instruments (WLEIS-S) measures individual emotional intelligence and the other instrument (WEIP-S) measures group emotional intelligence. Against this background, the possible invariance of both scales with respect to the sex variable is analysed, as well as possible differences in the variables measured by the scales between sexes. To this end, 452 primary education teachers from Southern Spain filled in the WLEIS-S and WEIP-S tests. The results found in the factor analyses carried out with both instruments showed an excellent fit, as well as good internal consistency. Moreover, both instruments showed robust invariance, which indicates that both scales measure the emotional intelligence construct consistently for both women and men. No differences were found in the assessed latent variables between sexes. To conclude, this study shows psychometric evidence supporting the suitability of the WLEIS-S and WEIP-S scales for the accurate assessment of individual and group emotional intelligence in women and men in the teacher population.

Gender differences in the predictive effect of perceive emotional intelligence on depressive symptomatology in older adults

The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between emotional intelligence, gender, and depressive symptomatology in older adults. To test whether there were differences between groups in the Trait Meta-Mood Scale dimension, univariate and multivariate analysis of variance were carried out, and t tests were performed to find the differences between groups in the variables that had shown differences in the univariate analysis. Participants were 853 Spanish cognitively healthy older adults between 60 and 95 years of age, with a mean age of 71.7 (SD = 7.4), of whom 64.9% were women. Self-reports were administered to assess the different variables under study. Specifically, the Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 was used to assess emotional intelligence, and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale to measure depressive symptomatology. The three dimensions of emotional intelligence showed differences as a function of gender and depression. Higher scores were found in the three dimensions of emotional intelligence in women. Moreover, people with higher levels of depressive symptomatology had higher scores on attention, and people with low depressive symptomatology had lower levels of clarity and repair. Women with depressive symptomatology showed high levels of attention, in contrast to men and women with low symptomatology. Considering the subjective perception of emotional intelligence, high attention to emotions and the female gender seem to be factors associated with depression in older adults, which allows us to outline a critical profile for depression that should receive special attention. Given the impact of depressive symptomatology in older adults, it is important to identify these profiles in order to detect possible risk factors for depression more effectively.

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Women's Empowerment in the Labor Market: A Field Study on a Sample of Women Working in the Tech Sector

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Women's Empowerment in the Labor Market: A Field Study on a Sample of Women Working in the Tech Sector

WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE ON ISLAMIC EDUCATION

Islam regards men and women as equals with equal rights. However, there are major differences between men and women. This research will look into gender concerns in Islamic education. The study's goal is to assess Islamic education from a gender perspective and learn more about how Islam is taught. This type of inquiry is known as library research. To assess all of the study's data, the researchers used descriptive analytic approaches. Before investigating gender perspectives, the researchers gathered information on Islamic education. The results of this study show that men and women have similar perspectives on the role of women in Islamic education. When a society is peaceful, the issue of gender discrimination can be handled. The study discovered no differences in men's and women's intelligence or ability for thought, and as a result, women had an equal place in Islamic education to men in terms of gender representation.

Islamic Financial Literacy: Evidence From Indonesian Urban Middle-Class Women

Issues related to Islamic financial literacy are always interesting to study, mainly because financial literacy has a close relationship with inclusive finance, including women's intelligence which is often questioned in terms of financial literacy. As if only women are the only gender whose abilities and intelligence are always questioned. The paradigm of women is being left behind as if it has been ingrained in some Indonesians. This study uses an explanatory sequential mixed method, in which qualitative data is taken from the study literature, then analyzed using the Nvivo 12 application. Quantitative data is taken from a questionnaire, then analyzed using the SPSS application. The result from qualitative data analysis would explain more the findings. This study proves that gender does not affect financial literacy, it can be said that women in Indonesia urban middle-class are not left behind. Everyone has the same rights in learning about Islamic financial literacy.

The Role of Stereotype Threat, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence in Women’s Opportunity Evaluation

Masculine stereotypes of entrepreneurship represent a threat to women. We aim to understand how such stereotype threat affects women’s opportunity evaluation through anxiety. We test our idea using a two-randomized-experiment strategy and achieve external validity using a survey of female entrepreneurs. We find that situational anxiety, as an emotional mechanism, explains why stereotype threat negatively influences opportunity evaluation among women. We further unveil emotional intelligence as a boundary condition enabling women to cope with stereotype threat during opportunity evaluation. Our studies provide new insights into an emotive view of stereotype threat in the context of women’s entrepreneurship.

Association of Health and Psychological Factors with Academic Achievement and Non-Verbal Intelligence in University Students with Low Academic Performance: The Influence of Sex

Academic achievement, measured with the grade point average (GPA), is a stable characteristic that has been associated with many sociodemographic and psychological variables; however, the relation of these variables with GPA has not been totally elucidated. The objective of this study was to perform an association of health, psychological and personal variables with GPA and non-verbal intelligence in low-academic performance population according to sex. We invited health sciences university students who had failed the same subject twice to complete a set of sociodemographic and psychological variables and a non-verbal intelligence test. The GPA, admission exam test and preparatory GPA were obtained. We included 124 students, and found that GPA was associated with non-verbal intelligence in women but not in men; in whom, having a job and having a romantic partner, were more correlated. In women, positive relations with others, emotion perception and weekly physical activity hours were marginally correlated with GPA; while in men, emotion regulation and self-motivation had a tendency of correlation with GPA. In addition, we found that non-verbal intelligence was associated somatization and the number of diseases in women. Academic achievement is regulated by different variables in each sex; therefore, intervention programs addressed by sex are needed to increase it.

Этнокультурные и гендерные стереотипные представления об интеллекте: китайцы и русские

The article presents the results of a cross-group sociolinguistic experiment aimed at analyzing the features of the expression of Chinese and Russian stereotypes about intelligence, as well as at identifying the influence of ethnic and gender factors on the stereotypical perceptions of Chinese and Russian women and men about the intelligence of the same social groups (the experiment involved four groups of informants – Chinese women, Chinese men, Russian women, and Russian men – 30 people in each group). During the experiment, the informants were asked to name five words characterizing the intelligence of the social groups under study. As a result, there were received 1,050 responses from the Chinese informants and 845 responses from the Russians. For the processing and analysis of reactions, semantic as well as quantitative analyses were used: all the reactions obtained were combined into semantic groups, the volume of which was considered as an indicator of the stereotyping of a particular feature. The study showed that the structures of stereotypes regarding the intelligence of different social groups differ depending on the ethnic group and gender of the evaluating and assessed groups. The core of the stereotype among Chinese is formed by three features – ‘Mind’, ‘Quick-wittedness’, and ‘Talent’, while the core of the stereotype among the Russians is formed by five features: ‘Quick-wittedness’, ‘Mind’, ‘Sanity’, ‘Education’, and ‘Evaluation’. Thus, the stereotype structure among Chinese is more compact than that among the Russians. At the same time, Chinese give higher marks to their intellect than to the intellect of the Russians; for the Russians, the ethnic factor does not have a significant impact on the assessment of a group. Ideas about intelligence in women do not depend on the gender factor of the group being assessed, while in men auto and hetero stereotypes differ to a greater extent. Analysis of the interaction between ethnic and gender factors shows that in-group favoritism is characteristic of only one of the considered groups – Chinese men, with the gender factor being more important for them than the ethnic one.

A Latin American Casanova? Sex, Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Life and Writings of Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816)

ABSTRACTThis paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in historical perspective: the forms of masculinity he embodied and those from which he distanced himself, his connections with women and the role that gender played in his assessments of the countries he visited and wrote about. Miranda's trajectory and self‐image trace an evolution (from mondain seducer and enlightened reader and thinker, to revolutionary sympathiser with women's intelligence and even women's rights, to his embracing more traditional domestic arrangements), not exempt from contradictions that shed new light on the complex dynamics of gender in the Enlightenment and the Atlantic revolutions. The ambivalences of his life and writings tell us much about the different and at times conflicting ways of being a man and relating to women in both the Hispanic world and the broader European and American context of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence for Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women Residing in Areas with Low Resources: An Overview

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a distressing condition involving involuntary loss of urine from the body. Urinary incontinence can negatively impact a person’s overall quality of life and lead them into stages of embarrassment and depression. It is an underrepresented and undertreated condition prevalent in women, especially in low socioeconomic regions where women may not be able to express their concerns due to unawareness of diagnosis and treatment/management options. There are different diagnostic and management protocols for UI; however, utilizing artificially intelligent systems is not standard care. This paper overviews the use of artificial intelligence in women’s health and as a means of cost-effectively diagnosing patients, and as an avenue for providing low-cost treatments to women that suffer from urinary incontinence in low-resource communities. Studies found that these systems, mainly utilizing artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), served to be an effective method in diagnosing patients and providing an avenue for personalized treatment for improved patient outcomes. A simple artificial intelligence (AI) model utilizing Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Networks was proposed to diagnose and manage urinary incontinence.

A cross-sectional study on the relationship between meditation training and emotional intelligence in women.

AimWe aimed to reveal the relationship of meditation with emotional intelligence (EI), sleep quality and melatonin level.DesignA cross‐sectional study.MethodsOur current research was performed on middle‐aged women. EI scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and night‐time saliva melatonin were measured for 65 participants including 33 meditators and 32 controls.ResultsThe meditation group showed a significantly higher EI score than the control group. In the regression analysis between EI and age, only the meditation group showed a significant positive correlation. The Pearson correlation analysis among all participants revealed a significant negative correlation between PSQI and EI. There was no significant group difference in the melatonin and PSQI.

The Design of Building The Creative Characters on Literation Based on Youth Locality: A Case Study in Panti Village, Jember Regency

This research aimed to describe the relationship between women and nature in maintaining and preserving the natural environment. The relationship was illustrated in problems 1) the existence of patriarchal power on women of Lou Dempar, which causing sexual violence in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel; 2) women's intelligence due to the knowledge they had in maintaining the biodiversity of Lou Dempar in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel; 3) women's intelligence in preserving the traditions of the ancestors of Lou Dempar in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel. This research used descriptive qualitative research with an ecofeminism approach. There were 2 kinds of data in this research, they were primary data consisting of words, phrases and sentences quoted from the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel written by Korrie Layun Rampan, while the secondary data were in the form of other data obtained from the reading of journals, books, newspapers that had a relation with primary data. The research data were collected by using the documentation technique. Data analysis techniques used were identification, classification, analysis, and triangulation. The results and discussion stated that patriarchal power penetrated nature and women became the victims, but Nori appeared as a representation of a woman who had the knowledge and also thought in advancing the village by taking care of nature or biodiversity. The Lou Dempar community rose up in terms of agriculture, animal husbandry, mastery of modern technology, and marketing of agricultural products. Women's knowledge was able to preserve nature, including preserving the hereditary traditions of Lou Dempar cultural community. Vandana sHiva's ecofeminism showed the relationship between women's knowledge, protecting culture and biodiversity.

Women’s Knowledge and Biodiversity of Lou Dempar Cultural Community in A "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" Novel Written by Korrie Layun Rampan: Ecofeminism Study

This research aimed to describe the relationship between women and nature in maintaining and preserving the natural environment. The relationship was illustrated in problems 1) the existence of patriarchal power on women of Lou Dempar, which causing sexual violence in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel; 2) women's intelligence due to the knowledge they had in maintaining the biodiversity of Lou Dempar in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel; 3) women's intelligence in preserving the traditions of the ancestors of Lou Dempar in the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel. This research used descriptive qualitative research with an ecofeminism approach. There were 2 kinds of data in this research, they were primary data consisting of words, phrases and sentences quoted from the "Fire Cloud Smoke/Api Awan Asap" novel written by Korrie Layun Rampan, while the secondary data were in the form of other data obtained from the reading of journals, books, newspapers that had a relation with primary data. The research data were collected by using the documentation technique. Data analysis techniques used were identification, classification, analysis, and triangulation. The results and discussion stated that patriarchal power penetrated nature and women became the victims, but Nori appeared as a representation of a woman who had the knowledge and also thought in advancing the village by taking care of nature or biodiversity. The Lou Dempar community rose up in terms of agriculture, animal husbandry, mastery of modern technology, and marketing of agricultural products. Women's knowledge was able to preserve nature, including preserving the hereditary traditions of Lou Dempar cultural community. Vandana sHiva's ecofeminism showed the relationship between women's knowledge, protecting culture and biodiversity.

Women's emotional intelligence and power structure in family (case study: school teachers of Khoy City)

Present study explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and power structure in family sphere of the female school teachers in the Khoy City. Emotional intelligence is measured by five core skills of self-awareness, self-management, self-motivation, social-awareness and relationship management in the EQ model of Bradberry and Greaves (2005). The required data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire designed based on the existing research literature which after being verified for content validation, construct, and internal consistency was distributed among 291 respondents chosen from among the target population with a total size of 1,200 women teachers within Khoy City. Data analysis using structural equation modelling (path analysis) in LISREL environment indicated a statistically significant inverse association between women's emotional intelligence and power structure in family of the teachers in Khoy City, confirming the research main hypothesis at 95% confidence interval. That is to say, the more collaborative the power structure tend to be, the higher the emotional intelligence of women becomes. In addition, according to the obtained results from test of the sub-hypotheses, the dimensions self-awareness, self-management, and relationship management were significantly associated with power structure in family life of the school teachers.

The Emotional Intelligence and Success of Women Entrepreneurs in the Beauty Salon Industry in Sri Lanka: A study of Colombo District

It was observed that a higher percentage of women lead enterprises in hair and beauty salon industry in Sri Lanka. Though this industry is growing at a remarkable rate within the last few years, very few studies focused on the link of Emotional Intelligent (EI) to the success of women enterprises. The purpose of the study is to understand the level EI and its relationship to the Enterprise success of women in the hair and beauty salon industry. It also evaluates how managerial skill, socio-cultural context, education age and location play on the success of women enterprises in the industry. The deductive method was adopted, and a sample of 100 women entrepreneurs surveyed by using a structured questionnaire. The findings confirm that there is a higher level of EI in women entrepreneurs lead to the success of their business. At the same time, age and business location and socio-cultural context have a significant impact on their achievements. The study suggested using much of self-management, social awareness and relationship management to develop women into next pedestal of entrepreneurship and also it insists government authorities work toward the country’s economic development through focusing in introducing educational programs to improve emotional intelligence in women, during the general education as well as in professional learning.

Eliminating Ignorance, Womanist Perspectival Discourse, and Cannon Formation

Eliminating Ignorance, Womanist Perspectival Discourse, and Cannon Formation Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan (bio) "Eliminating Ignorance""Ain't Got Time to Die" (The Spiritual, Redacted):Well, she kept so busy praising her saviorKept so busy fighting for justice Kept so busy pondering pedagogyAin't got time to die! In response to a lead article for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, "Silent Scripts and Contested Spaces," Cannon illustrated "Eliminating Ignorance."1 We must be willing to embrace the benefits of embodied multiculturalism to address effectively, with powerful strategies, the dismantling of hierarchal, mechanistic patterns of racist misogyny that justify reasoned legitimacy of oppressive, systemic domination. Cannon did not simply choose to become an extraordinary pedagogue. Rooted in the legacy of her maternal great-grandmother, Martha Zella Barringer, one subjected to brutal, dehumanizing violence against her personhood, Cannon mirrored Barringer's intellectual curiosity and zeal for learning. Barringer completed her elementary and secondary education at Scotia Seminary, a school of the Presbyterian Church. Generations of Cannon women believed education to be the oldest, most important field where they have served powerfully and have long focused their energies on embracing education as an arena of opportunity. Despite the paucity of funds, horrible living conditions, and other challenges, Martha and other black women, the vanguard of knowledge for freed people, were educators, courageously committed to emancipatory epistemology. [End Page 113] Cannon juxtaposes her family's teaching legacy from post-enslavement and her experience as senior racial/ethnic woman in the American Academy of Religion (AAR) since the 1970s, to posit how past institutionalized domination shapes the present; thus, women of color in classrooms today, and all who support us, can move from what is to what can be. Such a hegemonic stranglehold pertains to the superior/inferior foundational paradigms, methods, and canons operative in our educational and sociopolitical institutions. Social construction of gendered racism and concrete policies of inequities place women of color amid a state of conflict: surrounded by enemies and relentlessly criticized or attacked not for what we do but for who we are. Such aggressions create cognitive dissonance in everyday communities of thought, as Western scientific intellectual tradition formulates significant microaggressions against women of color. Cannon worked to eliminate ignorance given our academic context in which decision makers often heavily weigh the strongest credentials of white men as they systematically shift their standards and focus on the weakest aspects of racial/ethnic minorities. Governing structures deny many professors who are women of color recognition as viable, equal members in the body politics of learned societies. Power brokers in academia have created and perpetuated an economic stronghold in which black women's intelligence is belittled, misperceived, and devalued. Cannon reminded us that while fulfilling our responsibilities as full-time faculty members, we must pay attention to the quality of our lives and to how the emotional drain from the acute and unyielding verbal harassment, dirty looks, and demeaning jokes takes a toll on our health and overall well-being. What can any woman of color say when we experience brutal, callous, unrestrained, multilayered disrespect? To help eliminate ignorance, women of color in the field of religion must exegete structural, cultural, and hidden manifestations of power dynamics in order to identify folks outside the classroom who engineer questioning and undermining of our authority, intelligence, and interdisciplinary teaching methods inside the classroom. When women of color publicly share the disrespect occurring in our classrooms with members of the larger educational community, too often our intellectual compatriots in learned guilds of religion and biblical literature—even those usually oriented toward justice advocacy—seem disinterested observers or casual bystanders. There are no simple responses to the complex tapestry of white supremacist, androcentric, patriarchal, misogynistic norms within educational cultures, where women of color classrooms are battlegrounds. Thus, we eliminate ignorance by embracing the benefits of embodied multiculturalism to address effectively, with powerful strategies, the dismantling of hierarchal, mechanistic patterns of white supremacist patriarchal misogyny that justify the logic and legitimacy of oppressive, systemic domination. [End Page 114] Expanding an Alice Walker Quote: for Dr. Katie,"Writing, Teaching, and Preaching saved herfrom the sin and inconvenience of violence." Womanist Perspectival Discourse"Them that's...

We are in this together: How the presence of similarly stereotyped allies buffer against identity threat

Past research has demonstrated that ingroup experts buffer against the negative effects of identity threat on working memory as they are believed to be less likely to hold negative stereotypes about ingroup members. The present research examined, for the first time, whether the presence of a stigmatized outgroup expert whose stereotype content is similar to women's, but not a stigmatized outgroup experts whose stereotype content is dissimilar to women's, mitigates the cognitive interference stemming from identity threat for White women, and identifies a novel individual difference variable, stigma solidarity, which facilitates identification of such allies. Across six studies we demonstrated that White women perceived a Black male expert as less likely than White men to hold negative stereotypes about women's intelligence (Study 1, 2), especially if women were high in stigma solidarity (Study 3, 6), mitigating cognitive interference (Study 2, 4). Further, an outgroup expert who was not similarly stereotyped (i.e., Asian male) did not mitigate these identity threat effects (Study 5, 6). Thus, we contend that White women, especially those high in stigma solidarity, perceive similarly stereotyped outgroup experts as less likely to hold negative stereotypes about their intelligence, buffering against identity threats in such settings. This adds to a growing literature identifying the conditions under which intraminority relations can serve to expand contextual cues that signal identity safety.

The Relationship Between Spiritual Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being in Women with Breast Cancer

Background: As crisis caused by cancer results in imbalances and inconsistencies in body and mind as well as many psychological problems in patient’s life, spiritual intelligence is a critical source to increase resistance to the disease. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and psychological well-being in women with breast cancer in Babol. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted in the spring 2016 on 90 women with breast cancer referring for treatment to Shahid Rajaei hospital of Babolsar, and Ayatollah Rouhani and the counseling center for cancer registry of Babol. Demographic characteristics of patients such as age, marital status, education, occupation, place of residence (urban or rural), and duration of illness were recoded. In addition, two questionnaires of spiritual intelligence self-report inventory (SISRI-24) and Brief Reef Well-Being (18 questions) were used. Results: The results showed that the mean score of spiritual intelligence was 69.90 ± 14.13 (range of 0 - 98) and the mean score of psychological well-being was 75.01 ± 12.10 (range of 1 - 108). There was a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and psychological well-being (r = 0.47). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that spiritual intelligence predicted 22% of variance of psychological well-being. Among the demographic characteristics, only the relationship between education and psychological well-being was significant (r = 0.2). Based on the results of backward regression analysis, demographic variables were excluded from the model due to the lack of statistically significant relationship with psychological well-being, and only spiritual intelligence variable (B = 0.41) was identified as the strong independent predictor of psychological well-being of cancer patients in the final model. Conclusions: It is recommended for cancer treatment and cancer support centers to improve the skills of spiritual intelligence in women with breast cancer, especially in terms of personal meaning production, to promote psychological well-being.

Act Natural: Dubious Proposals in The Mill on the Floss, The Pastor’s Wife, Vera and Rebecca

Following George Eliot, Elizabeth von Arnim showcases a male rhetoric of naturalness. Her men cultivate and punish their women when they resist naturalizing. Without denigrating the intelligence of women, von Arnim shows their unwitting complicity in their subjection. In The Pastor’s Wife (1914) and in Vera (1921), the highly literate women have read the wrong books or missed the unfriendly truths about relationships in those they have read. The husbands and lovers make shallow use of philosophical and scientific reasoning to justify their control and enforce female uniformity deemed ‘natural’. Darwin is misappropriated by the tyrannical Wemyss: evolutionary theories support his imperious dismissal of Lucy’s aunt and friends. Wemyss’s most monstrous actions suggest an atavistic patriarchal dominance like the hereditary reversion theorized by Samuel Butler as unconscious memory. Wemyss brings up the issue of England’s inheritance, and a disturbing vision dawns as the philistine and self-appointed natural man subdues Lucy. Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) follows Vera’s plot, but it does not interrogate naturalness in the same way. Entrapped in her husband’s vision of a natural woman, the narrator registers Rebecca’s wild transgressiveness as more powerful and universal than her own tamed naturalness.

The prediction of personality type based on mental health and emotional intelligence in women with vaginismus

The aim of current study was to investigate the relationship between mental health and emotional intelligence with personality type in women with vaginismus. Research design is descriptive/correlation method. The study population included all women with vaginismus that refer Tehran clinics (about cooperation for research) in 2015 and diagnosed as vaginismus disorder by physician or psychiatrist. A total of 100 women with vaginismus disorder were selected by available sampling. Data collected by Goldberg Mental Health Questionnaire, Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The findings analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (structural equation modeling). Data analysis showed that the mental health and emotional intelligence could predict extroversion and neuroticism. This research predicted the positive direction for extroversion and the negative direction for neuroticism. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between mental health and extroversion, emotional intelligence and extroversion as well as mental health and emotional intelligence. Also, there is negative correlation between mental health and neuroticism, emotional intelligence and neuroticism. The results of this research show that there is essential attention to emotional intelligence and personality types of women with vaginismus disorder in the diagnostic, prevention, treatment and promoting of mental health.