Abstract
Background: Emotions have a vital role in handling stress and anxiety. Various studies emphasize the necessity for scrutinizing of the association of emotional intelligence as an all-encompassing view of the stress and anxiety management.
Aim: To analyze the stress management capabilities and to evaluate the association between emotional intelligence and stress management capabilities among the health professional students of Northern Border University - Arar, KSA.
Methods: The main objective of this project is to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and the management of stress and anxiety among health professional students in Northern Border University - KSA. The primary data is collected by using the standardized and structured questionnaire of emotional intelligence and stress management. Two hundred health professional students have been enrolled for the present study. The data has been analyzed with the help of computer program (SPSS).
Result: Positively worded items from students indicated higher emotional intelligence and higher proficiency in managing stress and negatively worded items from students indicated low emotional intelligence and lower proficiency in managing stress.
Conclusions: Our study concludes that students who scored high in EI scale had high scores in stress management scale which highlights the fact that a strong relationship exists between the emotional intelligence and stress management capabilities among the health professional students of NBU-KSA.