Relationship between emotional intelligence and educational stress in the students of BUMS

Emotional intelligence (EI) theory provides view about predicting effective factors in people's life whether in education or profession. Respect to present studies, people who have higher emotional skills are more successful in many of life dimensions including reaction to stress and controlling stress situations. Since students will make the future of society, this study was done to evaluate relationship between emotional intelligence and education stress in the students of BUMS. In this cross sectional study 260 students were selected by proportional sampling from four faculties: medical, nursing and midwifery, premedical and hygiene. Data was collected by two questionnaires: standardized EI sharing (33 questions, 5 domains) and student-life stress inventory (57 questions, 9 domais). Data was analyzed by t-test independent, Pearson correlation, and X2 and regressionlogistic in surface a≤0.05. 65.8% participants were women and 31.1% were Men. Participants were 44.6% in associate diploma level, 31.2% in bachelor and 23.1% in MD. There isnt significant correlation between EI scores and educational stress in students. There is significant relationship between EI with sex (P=0.02) and mean ofEI scores with 3 domains of educational stress: personal's favorites (P=0.004), reaction to stressors (P=0.002) and doing in stressful situations (P=0.00l) respectively. Since EI are very important for mental health and educational success, therefore it is recommended to pay more attention to it in curriculum and trainings for students.