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.
Materials & Methods: 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.
Results: 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.
Conclusion: 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