The Effect of Emotional Intelligence Management Training on Stress Syndrome in Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities

This study examines the effectiveness of training emotional intelligence management on stress in mothers of children with intellectual disabilities.

Fifty mothers were multiphase randomly selected and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 15 session of emotional intelligence management program. Questionnaire of stress syndromes were administrated to both groups before and after intervention.

The results showed that emotional intelligence training reduced significantly the stress syndromes in the experimental group as compared with the control group.

According, we can conclude that this method could be helpful for mothers with children with intellectual disabilities.