Comportamiento de la inteligencia emocional de los estudiantes de 6 a 8 grado del colegio José Rafael Faria Bermúdez, en virtud a los niveles de práctica de actividad física desarrollados durante la pandemia SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze the emotional intelligence behavior of 6th to 8th grade students at the José Rafael Faria Bermúdez school, in the city of Pamplona, ​​by virtue of the levels of physical activity developed during the SARS pandemic. -CoV-2; the sample corresponded to 80 male and female children and youth between 10 and 16 years old, selected through a probabilistic statistical process. The type of research is quantitative, quasi-experimental (non-equivalent control group design with pre-test and post-test), for data collection, the emotional intelligence inventory of Rego and Fernandes was used, this was applied in February 2020 (pre test) before beginning the confinement and the cessation of face-to-face school activities and it was applied again in March 2021 (post test) at which time some of the restrictions imposed by SARS-CoV- 2, establishing points of difference of emotional intelligence; the inventory of physical activity for adolescents IAFHA 2015, was applied only once in March 2021 allowing to establish the levels of physical activity practice; classifying the sample into 2 groups: high level of physical activity practice (A) and low level of physical activity practice (B). As results, it was possible to establish significant differences between group A and group B for group B there was a decrease in empathy, understanding of one's own emotions, use of emotions and emotional self-control, for group A these factors presented better results in the post-test with which it was possible to establish that students who have a high level of physical activity practices have a positive impact on emotional intelligence among others.