El papel de la inteligencia emocional sobre la calidad de vida en mayores institucionalizados

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This dissertation focuses on the study of the contribution that emotional intelligence (EI) is able to make to the quality of life of institutionalized older adults in long-term care facilities, an increasing representative group in society which have not been studied yet in the field of EI. The three articles that integrate this dissertation identified several individual variables related to older adults’ emotional processing ability that have the capacity to positively influence their lives, beyond sociodemographic and personality variables. For the first time, using both the prevalent self-report measures and the most recent and objective ability measures, evidence is obtained about the predictive power that EI has on various health, well-being and quality of life measures in institutionalized older adults.