The Management of Emotional Intelligence in the Development of Critical Thinking of Trujillo Students in Peru

Abstract

In the educational field, emotional intelligence and the development of critical thinking, have become a central axis, due to the urgent need to train students with the ability to judge and confront ideas, but not subjectively, but rather objectively, being able to argue their positions with scientific evidence, essential aspects for the development of people who have an innate curiosity and that is strengthened through of research, thus responding to the demands and constant changes of a globalized society. The main objective of the research was to establish the degree of relationship between emotional intelligence and critical thinking of students in the third grade of the secondary level of an experimental educational institution in the city of Trujillo in Peru. The methodology used was of basic type, with a quantitative approach, of correlational scope and with a non-experimental and transactional design, the measurement instruments used were two questionnaires with 25 and 30 items respectively, these instruments were submitted to the validity process through the Delphi judgment technique and reliability by a pilot test,  As main results it has been possible to show that the members of the study sample have a regular level in terms of the management of emotional intelligence and critical thinking, at the inferential level a correlation coefficient of rs = 0.977 was obtained, which indicates a very high relationship and a p-value of 0.000, lower than the level of significance (0.05),  which allows the hypothesis of the researcher to be accepted.