Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education Science, 16741University of Granada, Spain.
Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 16752University of Málaga, Spain.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2022 Oct;23(4):1173-1183. doi: 10.1177/1524838021991296. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
Adolescent aggression is a global public health with long-lasting and costly emotional, social, and economic consequences, and it is of vital importance to identify those variables that can reduce these behaviors in this population. Therefore, there is a need to establish the protective factors of aggressive behavior in adolescence. While some research has demonstrated the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and various aggressive responses in adolescence, indicating that EI-or the ability to perceive, use, understand, and regulate emotions-could be considered a protective factor for the development of aggressive behavior in adolescence, the strength of this effect is not clear. The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature concerning the relationship between aggressive behavior and EI in adolescents and provide a reliable estimate of the relationship between both constructs through a meta-analysis. For this purpose, we searched for relevant articles in English and Spanish in Medline, PsycINFO, and Scopus, obtaining 17 selectable articles based on the search terms used in research in the adolescent population. These studies provide scientific evidence of the relationship between the level of EI assessed from the three theoretical models of EI (performance-based ability model, self-report ability model, and self-report mixed model) and various aggressive responses, showing that adolescents with higher levels of EI show less aggressive behavior. Implications for interventions and guidelines for future research are discussed.
青少年攻击行为是一个具有长期和昂贵的情感、社会和经济后果的全球性公共卫生问题，因此确定那些可以减少这一人群中这些行为的变量至关重要。因此，有必要确定青少年攻击行为的保护因素。虽然一些研究已经表明情绪智力（EI）与青少年的各种攻击反应之间存在关系，表明 EI 或感知、使用、理解和调节情绪的能力可以被认为是青少年攻击行为发展的保护因素，但这种效应的强度尚不清楚。本研究的目的是对有关青少年攻击行为和 EI 之间关系的文献进行系统综述，并通过元分析提供这两个结构之间关系的可靠估计。为此，我们在 Medline、PsycINFO 和 Scopus 中以英文和西班牙文搜索相关文章，根据青少年人群研究中使用的搜索词，获得了 17 篇可选文章。这些研究提供了科学证据，证明了从 EI 的三个理论模型（基于表现的能力模型、自我报告的能力模型和自我报告的混合模型）评估的 EI 水平与各种攻击反应之间的关系，表明具有较高 EI 水平的青少年表现出较少的攻击行为。讨论了干预措施的意义和未来研究的指导方针。
