Estudio comparativo de los niveles de inteligencia emocional y estilos de apego entre jóvenes cristianos evangélicos y jóvenes sin orientación religiosa

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to compare the dimensions of emotional intelligence and attachment styles, in young evangelical Christians and young people without religious orientation, populations that were selected, due to their lifestyle and opposing dogmatic beliefs, allowing to develop an investigation pioneer on psychological variables determined by the adoption or not of a religion. This study presents a quantitative, descriptive-comparative, and cross-sectional approach, in which psychological instruments such as the TMMS 24 for emotional intelligence and the Camir-R were applied to evaluate attachment styles, in a total population of 128 young people. University students between 18 and 28 years old, divided into two samples, the first of 74 non-religiously oriented students from the Technical University of Ambato, from the Technical University of Ambato and the second sample was of 54 young people with religious orientation (evangelical Christians), belonging to the Great Campaign of Faith church. For the analysis of the variables, the statistical program SPSS version 23 was used, obtaining as a result that there are no statistically significant differences between the variables of both samples. Also, in relation to sex, it was found that men present a higher level of emotional repair and women in emotional attention, the attachment that predominated in young evangelical Christians was the one who was concerned, while the most relevant attachment in the young without guidance religious was the insurance. Finally, a statistically significant relationship was found between emotional clarity and attachment styles in young evangelical Christians, that is, the other dimensions did not show significant relationships, using the Spearman Rho statistical test.