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Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables
This study aimed to develop an emotional intelligence (EI) scale for male nursing students and investigate its associations with gender, age, religious beliefs, and father’s and mother’s education level. We recruited 384 male nursing students in Taiwan to construct an EI scale comprising 16 items wi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050814 |
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author | Lou, Jiunnhorng Chen, Hsiaochi Li, Renhau |
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description | This study aimed to develop an emotional intelligence (EI) scale for male nursing students and investigate its associations with gender, age, religious beliefs, and father’s and mother’s education level. We recruited 384 male nursing students in Taiwan to construct an EI scale comprising 16 items with four factors: recognizing the emotions of others, emotional self-awareness, self-emotional expression, and self-emotional management. The scale had factor loadings of 0.64−0.80. The reliability coefficients for the subscales ranged from 0.80 to 0.84, while that for the total scale was 0.93. We also recruited 402 female nursing students for comparison. Latent multiple regression of the EI factors showed that male students had higher self-emotional expression but lower self-emotional management than females. Age was negatively associated with self-emotional management for both genders. Religious beliefs were negatively associated with emotional self-awareness in male students, and with recognizing the emotions of others in females. Father’s and mother’s education had no association with EI in male students; however, father’s education was positively associated with all EI factors in females, and mother’s education was negatively associated with recognizing the emotions of others and self-emotional expression. These results provide insight into male nursing students’ EI and the background variables influencing EI. |
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spelling | pubmed-91415842022-05-28 Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables Lou, Jiunnhorng Chen, Hsiaochi Li, Renhau Healthcare (Basel) Article This study aimed to develop an emotional intelligence (EI) scale for male nursing students and investigate its associations with gender, age, religious beliefs, and father’s and mother’s education level. We recruited 384 male nursing students in Taiwan to construct an EI scale comprising 16 items with four factors: recognizing the emotions of others, emotional self-awareness, self-emotional expression, and self-emotional management. The scale had factor loadings of 0.64−0.80. The reliability coefficients for the subscales ranged from 0.80 to 0.84, while that for the total scale was 0.93. We also recruited 402 female nursing students for comparison. Latent multiple regression of the EI factors showed that male students had higher self-emotional expression but lower self-emotional management than females. Age was negatively associated with self-emotional management for both genders. Religious beliefs were negatively associated with emotional self-awareness in male students, and with recognizing the emotions of others in females. Father’s and mother’s education had no association with EI in male students; however, father’s education was positively associated with all EI factors in females, and mother’s education was negatively associated with recognizing the emotions of others and self-emotional expression. These results provide insight into male nursing students’ EI and the background variables influencing EI. MDPI 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9141584/ /pubmed/35627951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050814 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lou, Jiunnhorng Chen, Hsiaochi Li, Renhau Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title | Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title_full | Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title_fullStr | Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title_short | Emotional Intelligence Scale for Male Nursing Students and Its Latent Regression on Gender and Background Variables |
title_sort | emotional intelligence scale for male nursing students and its latent regression on gender and background variables |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050814 |
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