Emotional Intelligence and Its Association with Stress Coping Strategies among Secondary School Students in Multan District

Abstract

This study explored the link between emotional intelligence and strategies for coping with stress in 365 high school students in the Multan district of Pakistan. The framework for the study was based on the theory of emotional intelligence. The results on the emotional intelligence of the students were heartening, as it appeared that on the whole, the students were quite emotionally intelligent. But even more impressive was that the students, again on the whole, worked quite effectively with Problem-Solving Coping and Emotion-Focused Coping Strategies, which are types of coping that research has shown to be quite adaptive. And so what we found is that, indeed, there is a significant relationship, which is a positive relationship, with emotional intelligence and adaptive coping strategies