Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute

Background: Working with emotions is an important aspect of the nurse–patient relationship: the nurse will better manage his/her own emotions, and will also influence patient's emotions on investigations, treatments, fears, vision about disease, etc., Aggression is one of the important factors...

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Main Authors: Deeksha Gijwani, Anmol Mathur, Manu Batra, Aditi Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry
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Online Access:http://www.jiaphd.org/article.asp?issn=2319-5932;year=2021;volume=19;issue=4;spage=283;epage=287;aulast=Gijwani
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Anmol Mathur
Manu Batra
Aditi Sharma
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description Background: Working with emotions is an important aspect of the nurse–patient relationship: the nurse will better manage his/her own emotions, and will also influence patient's emotions on investigations, treatments, fears, vision about disease, etc., Aggression is one of the important factors that significantly affect the performance of an individual. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the level of emotional intelligence (EI) and aggression among nursing students and to assess its correlations with sociodemographic variables. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done among 242 nursing students of various nursing colleges of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Data collection was done using two questionnaires one for emotional intelligence and another for aggression level. The results were determined using the mean, standard deviation, T test and Pearson's correlation coefficient with level of significance was set at P < 0.05. Results: There is a nonsignificant negative relationship of verbal aggression (r = −0.0192) with EI. Higher aggression was seen in male participants in the age group of 18–21 years and in the 1st year of nursing students (P ≤ 0.01). Conclusion: Males were more aggressive whereas females were found to be more emotionally intelligent in the current study.
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spelling doaj.art-d133c9e1f591423594a47ba35b87a6012022-12-21T19:38:12ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry2319-59322350-04842021-01-0119428328710.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_194_20Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary instituteDeeksha GijwaniAnmol MathurManu BatraAditi SharmaBackground: Working with emotions is an important aspect of the nurse–patient relationship: the nurse will better manage his/her own emotions, and will also influence patient's emotions on investigations, treatments, fears, vision about disease, etc., Aggression is one of the important factors that significantly affect the performance of an individual. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the level of emotional intelligence (EI) and aggression among nursing students and to assess its correlations with sociodemographic variables. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done among 242 nursing students of various nursing colleges of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Data collection was done using two questionnaires one for emotional intelligence and another for aggression level. The results were determined using the mean, standard deviation, T test and Pearson's correlation coefficient with level of significance was set at P < 0.05. Results: There is a nonsignificant negative relationship of verbal aggression (r = −0.0192) with EI. Higher aggression was seen in male participants in the age group of 18–21 years and in the 1st year of nursing students (P ≤ 0.01). Conclusion: Males were more aggressive whereas females were found to be more emotionally intelligent in the current study.http://www.jiaphd.org/article.asp?issn=2319-5932;year=2021;volume=19;issue=4;spage=283;epage=287;aulast=Gijwaniaggressionemotionsnursing
spellingShingle Deeksha Gijwani
Anmol Mathur
Manu Batra
Aditi Sharma
Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
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aggression
emotions
nursing
title Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
title_full Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
title_fullStr Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
title_short Relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
title_sort relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression among nursing students in a tertiary institute
topic aggression
emotions
nursing
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