Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescence

Abstract

This work has as main objective to analyze the predictors of Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence, according to age,
gender, culture and socioeconomic and cultural, as well as the relationships that could be given between both variables,
for a multicultural adolescent sample. To make it possible we focused on 811 participants from six educational centers;
71.6% of the total was Muslims and 28.4% belonged to the Christian religion, 46.1% were male and 53.9% female. The
techniques used in this survey were the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC, Spielberger, 2001) as well
as an Emotional Intelligence questionnaire, built for its use. The results reflect that the predictors of Anxiety are Age and
Gender. For Emotional Intelligence, there are three predictors, such as Age, Culture and Gender. No relationship was
found between Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence, since none acts as a predictor of the other. The only exceptions are
two Anxiety factors: Problems and difficulties and Fear, which act as predictors of both EI and all its factors.