Is there any relationship between emotional intelligence and general health? A cross-sectional study in Zahedan 2016

Mahboobeh Doostkami, Maryam Sarbishegi*

Anatomy Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

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Mahboobeh Doostkami, Maryam Sarbishegi, 2016. Is there any relationship between emotional intelligence and general health? A cross-sectional study in Zahedan 2016. Journal of medical pharmaceutical and allied sciences, V 5 - I 6, Pages - 428 – 430. Doi: https://doi.org/10.55522/jmpas.V5I6.0113.

ABSTRACT

Some professions have critical situations that may threaten their workers' health. Emotional intelligence is a factor which can reduce the psychological pressures. So, this study aimed to investigate that is there any relationship between emotional intelligence and general health? This cross-sectional study was conducted on 45 operating room staff in Ali-ebne-Abitaleb hospital of Zahedan. A three-part questionnaire was used for data collection in this study. First part collected demographic information the second part was The Bradbury-Graves emotional intelligence questionnaire. The third part was GHQ-28 (General Health Questionnaire) standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed through SPSS v.19 by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation and T test.The mean of age was 29.93 ± 5.22. 35 females and 10 males took part in this study which 32 of them were married and 13 were single. The mean score of emotional intelligence was 108.11 ± 12.23 that means a good emotional intelligence. The mean score of general health was 75.00 ± 8.91. There wasn’t any significant relationship between emotional intelligence and general health (p=0.005). The results of this study didn’t show a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and general health but most of respondents who had a good emotional intelligence had a high general health score. Due to this it seems necessary to improve the emotional intelligence for improving the general health.

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