Study of the influence of emotional intelligence on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abstract

The study of emotional intelligence has become highly relevant in the last three years since during the COVID-19 pandemic several agents that make up the educational structure were affected, these affectations had repercussions in different areas, one of them is in the educational field, which had different problems within the learning process, in schools several students have lowered their academic performance due to the confinement that was sustained for more than a year during the highest peak of the COVID-19 pandemic since no one was able to attend school, thus losing themselves in much of the knowledge they had to obtain. This paper inquiries about the way in which emotional intelligence influences academic performance during the pandemic since most of the students experienced different situations in their homes as well as different emotions that could influence their averages to drop, in this way forms, 43 students from the Emilio Portes Gil elementary school who are between 11 and 12 years old were sampled, being fulfilled through a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental, causal correlational research design, making an analysis in SPSS of the variables motivation and empathy.