The purpose of this research study is about investigating if emotional intelligence has an influence on body image. Over the past few years, I observed, heard, read, that young adults have been putting pressure on themselves about their body appearance. It comes from social media, family, school environment, relationships, the society in general: the “perfect” body, the ideal which is thin girls and muscular boys. The consequence is they feel ashamed, dissatisfied, anxious not to reach this standard so their self-esteem decreases.
Emotional intelligence can serve as a protective function against maladaptive states and sequences. It suggests that emotional intelligence can apprise well-being, happiness, self-esteem and self-acceptance.
There is a larger literature about medical issues, and less about beliefs and conviction issues that young people can develop in relation to their body image.
This research was conduct with a small population of 30 students of different genders between 18 and 25 years.
Participants fulfilled via the SurveyMonkey platform, two questionnaires: one is the TEIQUE-SF (Emotional Intelligence) and the second one is MBSRQ (Body-Self Relations). The analyse has been done with the JASP statistics program, significant results suggested to expand the research to a larger number of young people to prove the correlation between the two areas.
Results would be examined in terms of Emotional Intelligence’s development and its impact on the body image, beliefs and convictions.
