Predictors of emotional and cognitive coping styles to stress

Authors

  • Carmen Luisa Segura Márquez Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/tematpsicol.2013.n9.836

Keywords:

emotional intelligence, primary mental aptitudes, facing styles

Abstract

The study is about facing stress related to emotional intelligence and the mental primary aptitudes, taken to 330 recent university students of both sex in a private university en Lima. Measuring instruments were: adolescent coping scale of Frydenberg and Lewis, primary mental abilities test of Thurstone and Thurstone and emotional quotient inventory BarOn. The results demonstrated that the emotional intelligence and the mental primary aptitudes predict the use of the style of facing stress, therefore we can say that the way in which problems are resolved can be explained based on the cognitive factor, verbal understanding and the emotional and interpersonal components and the mood in general. The reference stile towards others is a result of the cognitive factor numeric calculus and the emotional components, interpersonal, adaptability and the inverted relationship of the emotional quotient; the facing non productive style or not facing is the effect of the reasoning cognitive logic, the interpersonal emotional component and the inverse relationship with the emotional quotient.

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Author Biography

Carmen Luisa Segura Márquez, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

Psicóloga egresada de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Magíster por laUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcosy candidata al doctorado por la Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón. Docente de la Universidad Ricardo Palma.

Published

2013-12-30

How to Cite

Segura Márquez, C. L. (2013). Predictors of emotional and cognitive coping styles to stress. Temática Psicológica, 9(9), 23–33. https://doi.org/10.33539/tematpsicol.2013.n9.836