“Relación entre inteligencia emocional y depresión en estudiantes”

Abstract

This research seeks to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and depression of students at the Technical University of Ambato of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the area of Medicine, worked with students of the first semester of the medical career with a population and sample of 85 students, between 18 and 22 years old, who were evaluated through the Inventory of Emotional Intelligence of Baron, which provides a general result allowing to obtain the levels of emotional intelligence and the self-evaluation of depression of Zung that allows to determine the level of depression. For data analysis, the SPSS program was used through the X2 test and the exact significance of the chi square 0.632> 0.05, determining the independence of each of the variables. It means that there is no relationship between them