Korean J Med Educ.  2019 Mar;31(1):29-38. 10.3946/kjme.2019.116.

The relationship between emotional intelligence and happiness in medical students

Affiliations
  • 1Health Policy Research Center, Institute of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Suli.ghahraman@gmail.com
  • 2Students Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

PURPOSE
Emotional intelligence is a factor affecting the health of individuals, and happiness is another factor affecting it. Medical students' health can greatly affect a community's health due to the important role of medical students in maintaining and improving it. Accordingly, we aimed to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and happiness among the students of the Shiraz Medical School.
METHODS
This study is an analytical, cross-sectional study. The target population of this study was the medical students who began studying in the medical school and the international branch of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from September 2014 to September 2017. The sample size was 300 students who were selected by a systematic sampling method. The instruments for collecting information in this study were Oxford Happiness Inventory and Siberia Schering's Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. The significance level of the tests was set at 0.05.
RESULTS
The mean age of 292 responded participants were 20.73 with standard deviation of ±1.81 emotional intelligence (p < 0.001), level of stress (p < 0.001), and grade (p=0.03) and type of personality (p < 0.001) can explain the changes in the happiness level and they were significant effective factors in the regression modeling.
CONCLUSION
Emotional intelligence was a predictive factor for happiness in medical students. Students with higher emotional intelligence felt healthier. And happiness in extroverted students was higher than introverted ones. It is suggested that the results of this study should be confirmed with prospective studies.

Keyword

Emotional intelligence; Happiness; Iran

MeSH Terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Emotional Intelligence*
Happiness*
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Iran
Methods
Prospective Studies
Sample Size
Schools, Medical
Siberia
Students, Medical*
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