Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios de Farmacia y Bioquímica en Huancayo

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the relationship degree between the emotional intelligence and academic performance of students from the Pharmacy and biochemistry professional career in the Peruvian university “Los Andes”. Methods: It is a descriptive correlational design research. 150 students have participated from the 1° to the 9° cycle, on them has been applied the BarOn Emotional Inventory, emotional coefficient inventory (I-CE) which allow to know their emotional intelligence. At the same time, the weighted average was collected at the end of the semester 2012-II of each student to measure the academic performance. Results: Students who have an average or adequate emotional intelligence (X2=183,33 and p= 0,00) are 81(54%); the ones who have a low emotional capacity are 45 (30%); regard to the components; the intrapersonal presents an adequate or average emotional capacity of 95 (63%), being the highest in relation to the other components; followed by adaptability 89 (59%), stress management 86 (57%); interpersonal 76 (51%) and the mood 74 (49%) who present an adequate or average emotional capacity; the students who have a low emotional capacity were in the following components: adaptability 56 (37%), interpersonal 41 (27%), intrapersonal 36 (24%), the mood 40 (27%) and 32 (22%) in stress management. The semiannual average academic performance is 12.34 categorized as regular for 98 (65 %) students. Conclusions: It was determined that there is a significant correlation between the emotional intelligence with academic performance (r=0.403) (p≤0.01). In relation to the components: intrapersonal, interpersonal, adaptability, stress management and moods also present a significant correlation (p≤0.01) with academic performance.