Effect of Emotıonal Intellıgence Skılls Development Traınıng on Nurses' Fear of Intımacy and Care Behavıors

Overview

Emotional intelligence is a type of intelligence that can be developed, which gives individuals the ability to understand and express emotions to the other party. Studies have shown that individuals with a developed level of emotional intelligence can analyze their own and others' emotions and thoughts well, manage their emotions, interact positively with their environment, and are successful in interpersonal relationships and professional skills. Intimacy, on the other hand, is the ability to truly share the true self with another person. When fear develops regarding the concept of intimacy, which affects interpersonal relationships; individuals' healthy communication with other individuals is restricted, and feelings and behaviors that avoid intimacy may occur. The concept of "care" in nursing is related to the relationship between the nurse and the healthy/patient individual and the care process. In this study, it was planned to examine the effect of fear of intimacy and care behaviors of nurses by providing emotional intelligence skills development training to nurses in line with literature data. The research was designed as a single-center, randomized control group pretest-posttest experimental study.

The research sample consisted of bachelor's degree nurses who were working at Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital- Neurology Orthopedics Hospital between November 2023 and May 2024 and who agreed to participate in the study and had at least one year of work experience \[98 intervention group - 98 control group\]. The intervention and control groups were determined using a random numbers table from the simple random sampling method. In line with Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model, the Emotional Intelligence Skills Development Training Module was created and the participants in the intervention group were trained in 6 modules. Before the first module of the training was implemented, the Nurse Information Form prepared via Google Forms, the Revised Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Fear of Intimacy Scale, and the Care Behaviors-24 Scale were filled out. When the 6th Module of the training was completed, the Revised Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Fear of Intimacy Scale, and the Care Behaviors-24 Scale were filled out. The participants in the control group of the study were asked to fill out the Nurse Information Form, Revised Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, Fear of Intimacy Scale and Caring Behaviors-24 Scale prepared via Google Forms simultaneously with the first module. No intervention was applied to the control group. At the end of Module 6 of the training, the Revised Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, Fear of Intimacy Scale and Caring Behaviors-24 Scale were filled out simultaneously with the intervention group. The scales were re-applied to the intervention and control groups 3 months later. Emotional intelligence skills training was given and its effects on fear of intimacy and caring behaviors were evaluated.