The relationship between emotional skills and academic stress

Abstract

The possible relationships between emotional skills and academic stress and the coping processes of a group of students from the National Learning Services (sena) are explored. The sisco inventory was used to know the academic stress levels and the main ways in which students cope with it. A focus group was also established in order to understand the degree of emotional abilities of the students who obtained the highest scores in the sisco inventory. The main finding is that emotional skills make it possible for students, when faced with a stressful situation, to evaluate their emotions, which facilitates the control and overcoming of the stressful situation. In conclusion, better management of emotions contributes positively to assessing the stimuli that can be stressful, and to implementing the coping processes.