Influencia de la inteligencia emocional en los resultados académicos de estudiantes de las Ciencias Médicas

Introduction: Emotional Intelligence is consider crucial in order to get life success, now a days, EI is a very frequent topic on psychology and neurology studies, even dugout, there are not enough studies in our field of this matter and there are even less exploring the relationship between the EI and the academic results of the medical science studies. Objective: to assess the influence of EI in the academic results of the medical science studies. Material and methods: a prospective longitudinal study was conducted from September 2011 through February 2012, in a cohort of 150 Medical Science students in order to explore the dimensions of EI the Trait Meta Mood 24 scale was asses. Results: the average age was 19.5 years old; 76% were female and 55.4% present an emotional coefficient between 84 to 103 points. A high level of emotional intelligence was associated with better academic results at the same time in those with low emotional coefficient a tendency to negative academics results was observe (X2= 3.87, Signification Level=5% o sea p< 0,05). Conclusions: it was asses that those students with a high emotional coefficient tend to present positive academic results.