Reading as a deciding factor in the development of emotional competence: a study on university students
Abstract
The benefits of emotional competence upon people’s lives have recently been shown by the scientific community. As a consequence and in order to improve this competence, intervention programmes have flourished lately. Most of them use reading as a resource, but the connection between these two variables has not been sufficiently demonstrated. The situation described is what encouraged this study, in which the following objectives are: 1) to analyse emotional intelligence and reading habits in university students, 2) to identify the relationship between students´ readings and their self-perceived level of emotional intelligence, and 3) to establish the differences between emotional competence according to gender and academic year. Both reading habits and emotional intelligence were respectively assessed with a questionnaire especially designed for the study and the TMMS-24. Results suggest that there is a need to develop programmes that encourage reading and also promote emotional development. A discussion is then in place as a results of the demands made by the European Space for Higher Education for this type of competences in the new syllabus for Higher Education.Downloads
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