Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.345
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of college students. Through a questionnaire survey on college students, a total of 600 valid questionnaires were collected. Based on the survey results, the emotional intelligence and mental health of the respondents were measured by two scales, namely, the Emotional Intelligence Scale for College Students developed by Xu and Zhang, and the Mental health scale for college students with healthy personality orientation, which is inspired by Huang’s theory of sound personality. The results show that the emotional intelligence of college students is affected by factors like grade, major, gender, academic qualification and place of origin; the mental health of college students is influenced by grade, major and gender, but not impacted by academic qualifications or place of origin; the emotional intelligence of a college student partly reflects the mental health, while the latter also demonstrates the emotional intelligence to a certain extent. The research results provide a scientific basis for mental health counselling and education of college students.
Keywords
College Students, Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health, Impact Relations.