Thinking style as an underlying element of emotional intelligence

Abstract

This advance research article aims to understand the experiences of teachers about emotional intelligence as a component of the thinking style in the deanery of Health Sciences of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University of the Dominican Republic, for which it is based on the reality of teachers who work in this context. For its methodological orientation, a qualitative study will be followed framed in an interpretive paradigm of a phenomenological type, for the execution of which five teachers who work at said university will be selected, who will be interviewed in depth to collect the information pertinent to the formulated research purposes. The information collected will be categorized and sized, to obtain the emerging elements that would allow emotional intelligence to be identified as a two-dimensional construct that is assumed to be an innate personal aspect that is developed and strengthened through social interaction, which would form a component of the style of thinking that is mediated by its affective nature, emotional control, skills to establish social relationships and empathy with elements that permeate the way of understanding reality, of interacting with it, of interpreting it, therefore, it is more preeminent. as the foundation of the style of thinking that learning strategies in the academic context as it determines the emotionality of both the one taught and the one who learns, conditioning their academic interaction