THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRESSFUL BEHAVIORS WITH EMOTIONAL REGULATION, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMOTIONAL CREATIVITY IN STUDENTS

Emotional intelligence is considered as an effective component in the discussion of relationships between individuals. Students who do not have proper emotional abilities in the university face more disciplinary issues and may have more diversionary behaviors. Such emotional skills can include a variety of components, the most important of which are emotional regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotional creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the stressful behaviors and its relationship with the components of emotional intelligence, emotional creativity, and difficulty in emotional regulation.
The method of this research is correlation. In this study, 396 people (172 women, 224 men) from Islamic Azad University of Urmia were selected using cluster sampling method (first clustered and then proportional to the size of each cluster of the selected sample). The samples were evaluated using Stress Behavior Questionnaire, Emotional Difficulty Questionnaire, Shout Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and April Creativity Questionnaire.
The results show that stressful behaviors have a positive and significant relationship with the difficulty in emotion regulation (β = 0.246), and emotional intelligence and emotional creativity have a significant and negative relationship.
Based on the results, it can be concluded that the components of emotional intelligence, emotional creativity and difficulty in emotional regulation affect the processing of emotional information of individuals, affect perceptions, interactions and confrontation with educational environment. High ability in these components causes their adaptability and low ability to increase stressful and maladaptive behaviors.