Inteligencia emocional y actividad lectora en una escuela de 1. º Ciclo

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Natalie de Nóbrega dos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Franco, Glória
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3505
• topic: Inteligencia emocional; Lectura; .; Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades

The literature has shown that emotional intelligence has a great importance in personal success indicators such as interpersonal relationships, academic success and personal and social adjustment. For this reason, the school’s mission is not only to promote the learning of science but also emotional and social knowledge that will be significant cross life span and are important work since childhood. In this situation, we consider relevant to investigate whether reading activities conducted in extracurricular classroom are related to the development of emotional intelligence in students, since Mayer and Salovey (1997) argue that the literature is probably the first home of the intelligence emotional. The study included 55 girls (55.6 %) and 44 (44.4%) boys between 7 and 10 years old, students from a basic school from Região Autónoma da Madeira (RAM). Two instruments were chosen to assess emotional intelligence: a performance scale and self-assessment scale. To evaluate student performance was used the Portuguese version, translated by Roazzi et al. (2008), of the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC) of Pons et al. (2004), which measures the level of emotional understanding. To assess students’ perceptions of their emotional intelligence was used the Portuguese version of the questionnaire of emotional intelligence of Bar -On (Candeias & Rebocho , 2007). As an indicator of student reading activity, the number of books read during the first period of the 2013/2014 school year for extracurricular classroom was recorded. The results indicate sig nificant and positive relationships between the number of books read in the extracurricular activity with emotion al understanding and the perception of emotional intelligence.