Emotional intelligence and psychological well-being in nursing professionals from southern Chile

• Main Authors: Alex Leandro Veliz Burgos (Author), Anita Patricia Dörner Paris (Author), Alexis Soto Salcedo (Author), Jose Luis Reyes Lobos (Author), Francisco Ganga Contreras (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

<p><strong>Fo</strong><strong>undation</strong>: Health professionals and specialy those related to caring, are under certain situations which produce professional stress that affect their psychological state.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to identify the levels of emotional intelligence and psychological wellbeing, respectively, in nursing professionals of the Los Lagos Region, Chile.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: Descriptive study with non-experimental design. A number of 97 nurses from the Los Lagos region were included. A <em>Trait Meta-Mood Scale </em>and the Ryff scale of psychological wellbeing were applied to evaluate the emotional intelligence and psychological wellbeing respectively, both with good levels of reliability and composed by a series of sub-scales or dimensions.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: regarding emotional intelligence, high levels of of emotional perception were observed (35 %), emotional comprehension (36,1 %) and emotional regulation (42,7 %). A 57,5 % of the professionals had a high level of psychological wellbeing, although 33,7 % showed  low level of positive relations.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong>: there is a direct and significant relation between the scales of emotional intelligence and psychological wellbeing.</p>

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