Inteligencia emocional y empatía: su influencia en la competencia social en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

La finalidad del presente trabajo es analizar las relaciones existentes entre la competencia social y la inteligencia emocional en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Así mismo, también nos proponemos analizar el papel de la empatía y sus relaciones con la competencia social y la inteligencia emocional, ya que en la mayoría de los estudios existentes aparece relacionada de un modo u otro con estos constructos. Los participantes en nuestro estudio fueron 110 estudiantes de primer ciclo de ESO. Los instrumentos empleados fueron: el test EQ-i:YV de BarOn (1997), el Cuestionario Matson de habilidades sociales para adolescentes (Matson, Rotatori, y Helsel, 1983) y el Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI (Davis, 1983). Las técnicas de análisis de datos incluyen: análisis de correlación, análisis de regresión múltiple paso a paso y análisis de regresión múltiple de tipo jerárquico. Los resultados obtenidos nos permiten identificar un conjunto de variables que están directamente implicadas en la Competencia social.

Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital

A general trend in the study of international retirement migration has been the increased attention paid to the social contacts and network connections of the migrants in both the destination and the origin areas. These studies have examined the extent to which migrants build social relationships with their neighbours and the host society while also maintaining social links with their countries of origin, addressing the central role that leisure travel plays in sustaining increasingly dispersed social networks and maintaining the social capital of these networks and of the individuals involved in them. Using a case study approach to examine British retirement migration to Spain, we explore the relevance of transnational social networks in the context of international retirement migration, particularly the intensity of bidirectional visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism flows and the migrants’ social contacts with friends and/or family back in their home country. Building on the concept of social capital and Putnam's distinction between bonding and bridging social capital, we propose a framework for the analysis of the migrants’ international social networks. The results of a study conducted based on a sample of 365 British retirees living in the coast of Alicante (Spain) show both the strength of the retirees’ international bonding social capital and the role of ‘VFR's travel and communication technologies in sustaining the migrants’ transnational social practices and, ultimately, their international bonding social capital. It also provides evidence for the reinforcing links between tourism-related mobility and amenity-seeking migration in later life.