دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی هوش هیجانی دانشجویان پزشکی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شیراز مطالعه مقطعی - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

Emotional intelligence is the ability of an individual to assess and control emotions in oneself and others and also use this information in ongoing coping methods. Emotional intelligence is known to have an effect on the success rate of an individual as well as job performance and satisfaction. Though contradictory, emotional intelligence is supposed to have multiple factors affecting it. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Shiraz University of Medical Sciences has an effect on the emotional intelligence of its medical students and also whether the students' emotional intelligence had a relationship with their gender, hometown, and application exam rank or cumulative grade point average. Junior and senior medical students were approached from Autumn (2016) until winter 2017 and asked if they would fill out the Persian translation of TEIQue-SF questionnaire. They were also asked to inform us about their gender, educational region, cumulative grade point average, and Konkoor rank. The data was later analyzed by SPSS ver. 22. A significant difference was found between emotional intelligence of junior and senior medical students. No significant difference was found between emotional intelligence of male and female participants and there was no relation between emotional intelligence and Konkoor rank, cumulative grade point average, and educational region. The results showed that medical education has a negative effect the emotional intelligence. Males and females in this study had the same emotional intelligence that suggests the social effects on emotional intelligence. Also, the net effect of hometown and culture was not significant enough to influence emotional intelligence. As we analyzed the relationship of emotional intelligence and cumulative grade point average, it was concluded that the academic success of the students which is based on their scores is not related to their emotional intelligence.

Discussion

In this study EI of senior medical students were significantly lower than junior medical students so it can be concluded that EI decreases in the course of medical education. It is not clear when this decrease in EI happens and it can be looked into future studies. One of the limitations in this study was that we could not differentiate the effect of university from participants' age on EI that some studies like Naeem et al. and they were filling the questionnaires, their self-reported EI was affected by tiredness of their shifts. Another explanation of decrease in EI of medical students – according to a study of Kerasidou et al., would be that doctors are tend to be “emotionally detached” from their patients because it is considered unprofessional amongst doctors and as a result, this leads to decreasing empathy (which is a part of EI) [34]. This is what Mahood (author) refers to as hidden curriculum [35]. We looked into the relationship between EI and gender, which was not significant. Namdar et al. suggested that this relative evenness might be due to females suppressing their emotions in current Iranian society [18]. Also from family perspective, children are brought up differently according to their gender e.g. boys are nurtured and punished more physically than girls and it can affect their emotions [36,37]. So we can conclude that this equality is due to society and it is McKinley had focused on [11,20].