Introduction: Emotional intelligence, or the capacity to cope one’s emotions, makes it
simpler to form good connections with others and do caring duties. Nursing
students can enroll a health team in a helpful and beneficial way with the use
of emotional intelligence. Nurses who can identify, control, and interpret both
their own emotions and those of their patients provide better patient care. The
purpose of this study was to assess the emotional intelligence and to
investigate the relationship and differences between emotional intelligence and
demographic characteristics of nursing students. Methods: A
cross-sectional study was carried out on 381 nursing students. Data collection
was completed by “Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test”. Data were
analyzed with the Statistical Package for Social Science. An independent t
test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation, multiple linear regression were used. Results: The results revealed that the emotional intelligence mean was 143.1 ± 21.6
(ranging from 33 to 165), which is high. Also, the analysis revealed that most
of the participants 348 (91.3%) had higher emotional intelligence level. This
finding suggests that nursing students are emotionally intelligent and may be
able to notice, analyze, control, manage, and harness emotion in an adaptive
manner. Also, academic year of nursing students was a predictor of emotional
intelligence. Furthermore, there was positive relationship between the age and
emotional intelligence (p<
0.05). The students’ ability to use their EI increased as they rose through the
nursing grades. Conclusion: This study confirmed that the emotional
intelligence score of the nursing students was high. Also, academic year of
nursing students was a predictor of emotional intelligence. In addition, a
positive relationship was confirmed between the emotional intelligence and age
of nursing students.
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