Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background & Objectives:Emotional Intelligence theory predicts a new vision about the factors that influence success in the prevention of mental and physical disorders.Previous evidence suggest that individuals with higher emotional skills in various spheres of life are superior. Since students will be influential people in society of the future, the aim of this study was determine relationship between Emotional Intelligence and general health among them. Material & Methods:This analytical study was conducted on 235 students from the North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences. To evaluate General health and Emotional Intelligence Goldberg and Emotional Intelligence (Bar-on i) questionnaires, were used respectively. Data were analyzed by SPSS and presented with descriptive statistics، pearson correlation coefficient and Independent t-test . Results:The results of the Pearson correlation test showed a statistically significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and anxiety. (p= 0.008, r= 0.23). Also there was a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and depression. (p=0.000, r= 0.43). Between semester and general health as well as their level of emotional intelligence, a meaningful negative relationship was observed. (p=0.000, r= 0.14) Conclusion:Emotional intelligence can be a predictor of general health. With respect to low general health and emotional intelligence among the studied participants, and the degree of the close relationship between these two components, using medical and psychological methods of removing barriers in the development of public health and improve emotional intelligence is recommended .

Background and Objective:Subjective well-being is one of the important issues of Positive psychology. This study aims at investigating the influence of emotional intelligence training on positive thinking components of secondary students of Birjand Shahed schools in 1391. Material & Methods:This study is quasi-experimental administrating pre/post tests on experimental and control groups. For this, at first, all Shahed schools of Birjand were considered The purpose of all male students in Birjand subjective well-being questionnaires completed .Then (30), students in both groups (15 patients and 15 control group (who scored lower subjective well-being of the rest of them were selected. Experimental group students were taken under training of emotional intelligence protocol according to Bradberry T-Greaves J. (2005) through 8 ninety-minute sessions. Control group students received no training in this regard. Both groups answer the test of positive thinking once more. Finally, tests of ,Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Levene's Test, Mean, Standard deviation, independent T-test, and Covariance were used for the analysis and description of the data. Results: The results show that the new protocol elements of emotional intelligence on the components of subjective well-being in the intervention group had significant effect on the test (p01/0> ). The impact of the new components, stress and depression, vitality and determination were respectively (0/455, 0/441, 0/676, 0/638), respectively. Conclusion:Since training of emotional intelligence influences positive thinking significantly, it should be applied in improving the positive thinking of students.

Background and Objectives: Emotional Intelligence theory predicts a new vision about the factors that influence success in the prevention of mental and physical disorders. Given that  Emotional Intelligence enhances individual's ability to successfully encounter environmental pressures especially occupational burnout therefore the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and occupational burnout among nurses in Bojnurd teaching hospitals 2013.

Material & Methods: The present research is a type of correlation studies, which was performed cross-sectionally and with stratified random sampling method on 110 nurses . For data collection, Maslach's Burnout and Bar-on emotional intelligence questionnaires were used. Data were collected through Likert scale method, was analyzed by SPSS 20.

Results: There was a significant and inverse relationship between emotional intelligence and emotional exhaustion (p=0.001 and r=&minus0.11) and also depersonalization (p=0.001 and r=&minus0.11). No meaningful relationship was observed between emotional intelligence and personal accomplishment (p=0.31 and r=&minus0.12). Furthermore, in terms of emotional intelligence between males and females (p=0.024), and in different age groups (p=0.009), shown a significant difference.

Conclusion: According to remarkable difference between Emotional Intelligence and occupational burnout  and also based on Emotional Intelligence’s predictive model in occupational burnout prevention, can be attempt holding concurrent duty training courses about Emotional Intelligence in nurse’s teaching hospitals.

Key words: Emotional Intelligence, Occupational Burnout, Nurses

Background & objectives: Emotional intelligence is a concept based on the emotional and social intelligence which Nowadays, has been growing in interpersonal relationships, in the sphere of educations, the workplaces, and the families. This study was aimed to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and computer games in students.

Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional. The target population included all students of junior high school in Bojnurd, out of which 205 subjects were recruited through a multistage random sampling. For collecting the data in this study, “Shot” questionnaire of emotional intelligence and questionnaire which included variables related to computer games and demographic, was applied. The independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test in SPSS₂₀ software were used for analyzing the data.

Results: The mean age of the students was 13.05±0.62 years. The subjects were 51.2% males and 48.8 percent female. Results showed a statistically significant relationship between emotional intelligence of students and the kind of game which adolescents more loved to do and the type of game. There was not any significant association between emotional intelligence and other variables.

Conclusion: Because of the relationship between emotional intelligence of students and the type of computer games, the twofold effect of such relationship should be considered.

key words: emotional intelligence, computer games, adolescents