Resumen de The relation between emotional intelligence and psychological capital of employees

Nathalia Mellao, Lisete Mónico

• This paper examines the relationship between the Emotional Intelligence (EI), understood as an individuals competence in intelligent adaptive behavior, and the Psychological Capital (PC), seen as a set of positive personality features used in the professional scope, of employees. A quantitative survey was made with a sample of 301 individuals of both genders and different age groups that are currently employed in Portugal. We used the measures Emotional Intelligence Scale (Rego, Sousa Cunha, Correia, & Saur-Amaral, 2007) and the PsyCap Questionnaire (Luthans, Avolio, Avey, & Norman, 2007). The results suggest that the EI has a significant relationship and a high correlation (r = .599) with the PC of the workers, being the capacity of self motivate using the own feelings (selfencouragement) and to control their feelings in emotional situations (emotional self-control) factors that contribute very much to promote the Psychological Capital of the employees.