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Abstract

Diversos organismos alertan sobre el incremento del consumo de alcohol y de su uso extendido en los adolescentes. Algunas investigaciones dan cuenta de la relevancia que posee la inteligencia emocional (IE) como nuevo constructo que puede ayudar a explicar esta problemática. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la contribución de la IE rasgo y habilidad a la comprensión del consumo de alcohol respecto a otros factores protectores personales previamente estudiados como la autoestima, la autoeficacia y la asertividad. Esta investigación desarrolla una metodología de corte cuantitativo y de tipo correlacional en una muestra de 799 estudiantes. Los resultados revelan que los factores de percepción emocional, claridad emocional, reparación emocional, autoestima y asertividad se asociaron de manera significativa e inversamente con las conductas de consumo de alcohol, al contrario que el componente de atención emocional. Estos hallazgos proporcionan nueva evidencia empírica que podría orientar intervenciones preventivas a edades tempranas.

Alternate abstract:

A lot of public bodies have warned against an increase in alcohol intake and its extended use among adolescents. Some studies have revealed the relevance of emotional intelligence (EI) as a novel construct that may be useful in explaining this problem. The objective of this study is to analyze the contribution of trait and ability EI to the understanding of alcohol consumption with respect to other personal protective factors such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, and assertiveness previously studied. A correlational and quantitative methodology was used on a sample of 799 students. The results suggest that the factors of emotional perception, emotional clarity, emotional repair, self-esteem, and assertiveness were significantly and inversely related to alcohol consumption behaviors, unlike the emotional attention component. These findings offer new empirical evidence that may assist in establishing preventive interventions targeting young people.

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Plain Language Summary

Currently, abusive alcohol consumption by the school-age population is one of the country’s main public health concerns (PNSD, 2018). The seriousness of the middle and long-term consequences of early alcohol consumption highlights the need to reinforce preventive strategies for adolescents (Chung et al., 2018). In accordance with the Positive Youth Development approach, a perspective focusing on protective personal factors has been adopted. It expands the concept of health to include the skills and competences necessary to make adolescents more resistant to risk factors such as alcohol consumption (Benson et al., 2004), including self-esteem, self-efficacy, and assertiveness.

Over the last two decades, many studies have revealed that emotional intelligence (EI) is a predictor of well-being and better adaptive functioning during adolescence (Méndez-Giménez et al., 2019). The study of EI and alcohol consumption is a relatively new research field that is growing as it has been shown that emotional skills can be learned and improved, thus preventing behaviors that may constitute health risks (Brackett et al., 2011). Despite the fact that a lower EI is related with more problematic alcohol, tobacco, and illegal substance consumption in adults, university students and adolescents (Kun & Demetrovics, 2010; Peterson et al., 2011), most studies use a global EI rate and do not provide information on the impact of each individual factor, which would have been of great assistance in clinical and educational interventions. Furthermore, many of the studies applied self-reporting measures that only examined the role of trait EI. Besides, very few studies considered adolescent population. Therefore, examining trait and ability EI may facilitate a more precise understanding of this issue.

On the other hand, some of the classic personal protective factors receiving special attention are self-esteem, self-efficacy, and assertiveness, which have been found to be effective in the prevention of risky behaviors at early ages and whose deficit has been associated with abusive alcohol consumption (Lázaro-Visa et al., 2009). However, contradictions arise in some past studies, and therefore it may be useful to confirm them as protective variables in order to use them as central intervention elements in preventive programs.

Given the lack of past research, this study attempts to analyze the incremental and predictive validity of trait and ability EI on other personal protective factors of alcohol consumption in adolescents, such as self-esteem, self-efficacy and assertiveness. Likewise, as the literature suggests that the onset of alcohol consumption begins early (Golpe et al., 2017), it would be interesting to have empirical data on the earliest stage of adolescence (12-13 years of age). Based on the previously mentioned theoretical framework, the following study hypotheses are detailed below:

H1: Factors of trait EI, ability EI, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and assertiveness will have a negative and significant correlation with the alcohol consumption variables, unlike the emotional attention factor, which will correlate positively and significantly with them.

H2: Both trait and ability EI factors will have a predictive effect on alcohol intake habits, when considering other classic personal protective factors such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, and assertiveness, which will remain upon controlling for the participants’ gender and age.

Details

Title
¿Qué Aporta la Inteligencia Emocional al Estudio de los Factores Personales Protectores del Consumo de Alcohol en la Adolescencia?
Author
González-Yubero, Sara; Lázaro-Visa, Susana; Palomera, Raquel
Pages
27-36
Section
research-article
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Jan 2021
ISSN
1135755X
e-ISSN
21740526
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
2475359326
Copyright
© 2021. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es_ES (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.