The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Humanism College Students at IAU, Qaemshahr Branch, Iran

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of high school students in Islamic Azad University of Qaemshahr. This study is a descriptive-survey research and the method of data collection is library study and questionnaires. Statistical population of research includes 3672 people and statistical sample includes 350 people of students, of which %56.6 are women and %43.4 are men. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze data using SPSS. Bar-On Emotional Intelligence and the Goldberg and Hillier’s mental health (GHQ-28) questionnaires were used to measure emotional intelligence and mental health, respectively. Results from Spearman correlation coefficient test showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health for both groups of men and women. Findings showed that there is significant relationship between components of emotional intelligence and mental health of mention groups (men, women, totally).