RT Journal Article
T1 Teachers’ Subjective Happiness: Testing the Importance of Emotional Intelligence Facets Beyond Perceived Stress
A1 Mérida-López, Sergio
A1 Quintana-Orts, Cirenia Luz
A1 Rey-Peña, Lourdes
A1 Extremera-Pacheco, Natalio
K1 Inteligencia emocional
K1 Profesores - Salud mental
AB Purpose: This study investigated which EI facets were the most predictive in explaining subjective happiness aboveperceived stress in a relatively large sample of Spanish teachers.Methods: The sample was composed of 1323 Spanish teaching professionals (821 females and 529 secondary school teachers) fromdifferent educational centers located in Southern Spain. Predictive andincremental validity was assessed with SPSS, and hierarchical regression analysis was used to predict subjective happiness from EIfacets beyond that accounted for by perceived stress.Results: The results showed that all four EI facets correlated significantly with each other. Also, they all were positively andsignificantly associated with subjective happiness, whereas perceived stress was negatively associated with happiness scores.Moreover, self-emotion appraisal, use of emotions and regulation of emotions accounted for a significant amount of variance in theprediction of satisfaction with life beyond the effects of sociodemographic variables and perceived stress.Conclusion: This study extends the specific contribution of EI facets in predicting subjective happiness, rather than EI as a unifiedconstruct, in a relatively large sample of Spanish teachers. Self-focused dimensions involving appraisal, use and regulation of emotionsappeared to be the most important predictors of happiness beyond stress experienced by teachers.
PB Dove Press
YR 2022
FD 2022-02-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39896
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39896
LA eng
NO Mérida-López, S., Quintana-Orts, C., Rey, L., & Extremera, N. (2022). Teachers’ Subjective Happiness: Testing the Importance of Emotional Intelligence Facets Beyond Perceived Stress. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 15, 317–326. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S350191
NO Parte del proyecto I+D+i PID2020-117006RB-I00, financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
NO Grupo de investigación Applied Positive Lab CTS-1048G-FEDER (Junta de Andalucía)
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026