The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health of Students of different field at IAU, Qaemshahr Branch, Iran Jamkhaneh Ezzatallah Baloui*,1, Ghara Asghar Nadi**, Esmaeili Neda***, Jamkhaneh Roghayeh Zareei****, Fallah Vahid***** *Department of Statistics, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran) **Health sciences research center, Mazandaran University of medical Sciences, Sari, Iran ***Islamic Azad University, PhD student in Educational Management, Sari, Iran ****MA in Educational Curriculum, Islamic Azad University, Sari Branch, Sari, Iran *****Department of Humanism, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran 1Corresponding Author
Online published on 5 July, 2014. Abstract The present study evaluated the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of high school students in different field of Islamic Azad University of Qaemshahr. This study is a descriptive-survey research and the method of data collection is library study and questionnaires. Statistical population of research includes 3672 people and statistical sample includes 350 people of students. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze data using SPSS software. Bar-On Emotional Intelligence and the Goldberg and Hillier's mental health (GHQ-28) questionnaires were used to measure emotional intelligence and mental health, respectively. Results from Pearson correlation coefficient test showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health for different field. Findings showed that there is significant relationship between emotional intelligence and components of mental health of student in deferent field. Top Keywords Mental health, Emotional intelligence, GHQ-28, Field, Bar-On's 90-item scale. Top |