Explorando la inteligencia emocional percibida en tres franjas etarias: un estudio realizado en la argentina / Exploring perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups: a sudy realized in Argentina

La inteligencia emocional percibida consiste en un conjunto de habilidades de procesamiento emocional. Incluye la capacidad para percibir los propios estados emocionales – atencion emocional –, comprenderlos y expresarlos linguisticamente – claridad de sentimientos - y regularlos adaptativamente – reparación emocional. Este constructo se encuadra dentro del enfoque de la Psicología Positiva, ha sido asociado a la resiliencia y funciona como amortiguador de las respuestas de estres y como un factor protector contra el burnout. Este estudio explora y compara las características de la inteligencia emocional percibida en personas de tres grupos de edad: 1) 15 a 24; 2) 30 a 45 y 3) 60 a 75 años, mediante un diseno transversal, descriptivo-correlacional. Se realizó un muestreo no probabilistico-intencional de 252 sujetos de ambos sexos a los que se administró la Escala de Metaconocimiento sobre Estados Emocionales. Los resultados señalan que los participantes de 60 a 75 años presentan mayor capacidad de comprensión y expresión emocional que los de los grupos restantes, así como mayor capacidad de regular sus emociones que los del grupo de 15 a 24 años. Estos resultados apoyan los antecedentes que señalan que los adultos mayores presentan un perfil de mayor desarrollo de las habilidades de Inteligencia Emocional que las personas de menor edad. Esto implica que los adultos mayores tienen disponibles estos efectivos recursos emocionales para afrontar y adaptarse a los desafios de la vida cotidiana en la vejez.

Perceived emotional intelligence is a set of abilities of emotional processing. It includes the capacity to recognize the own emotional states – emotional attention –, the ability to understand and express them linguistically – clarity of feelings – and also the ability to adaptively regulate them – emotional repair. Developed within the Positive Psychology framework, it has been associated with resilience and works as a buffer for stress responses and also as a protective factor against the burnout. This study explores and compares the characteristics of perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups, 1) 15 to 24; 2) 30 to 45 and 3) 60 to 75, using a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational design. A non-probability intentional sample of 252 subjects, both male and female – for whom the Scale of Metacognition about Emotional States was administered – was carried out. The results showed that subjects from 60 to 75 years have a greater capacity for understanding and emotional expression than the other groups, and greater ability to regulate their emotions than the 15 to 24 group. This findings support previous studies which point out that the elderly have a more developed profile of perceived emotional intelligence abilities than younger people. This implies that the elderly have effective emotional resources to cope and adapt to everyday challenges.

Correlation Between Muscle Amounts and Grasp Power in the Elderly People, Jejudo / 한국역학회지

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to examine the relationships between muscle mass and hand strength in elderly people. METHODS: The study subjects were 659 volunteers aged older than 65 in Jejudo, south Korea. The anthropometric information such as weight, body mass index (BMI) and muscular mass was collected by the body composition analyzer. The hand strength was obtained by the digital grip dynamometer. The fasting blood sugar index called as potential diabetes mellitus (DM) was defined as the condition over 120 mg/dL of the blood sugar. The BMI was classified into under 23, 23-25 and over 25 to analyze the relationships of BMI and muscle mass, hand strength. RESULTS: The factors affecting muscle mass were sex (p<0.001), age (p<0.001) and BMI (p<0.001). The factors affecting hand strength were sex (p<0.001), age (p<0.001) and BMI (p=0.003). And there was a weak association between muscle mass and hand strength after controlling with the affected factors (r2=0.15, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The hand strength is weekly correlated with the muscle mass. So we recommend to use digital grip dynamometer combining with other measurements for diagnosis the sarcopenia in epidemiologic study.