Abstract
This research has been conducted to determine the effect of the emotional intelligence levels of emergency health service personnel on psychological resilience. The universe of the research, which has been designed as a quantitative research, is consisted of 169 health personnel who work in the emergency health service stations in Usak province. The data collection process lasted for one month between 21 July-16 August 2019, and 143 healthcare personnel have participated in the research. For the data collection; introductory form, Emotional Intelligence Scale, and Short Psychological Resilience Scale have been used. In the analysis of the data; frequency analysis, t-test, Anova test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis have been performed. In the research, it has been found that the emotional intelligence scale mean scores of the participants were "high" and the psychological resilience scale mean scores were "medium". Psychological resilience scale mean scores of male participants have been determined to be higher than female participants. In the research, it has been detected that emotional intelligence affects psychological resilience in a statistically significant and positive way. It has been observed that regulation of mood (optimism), evaluation of emotions and use of emotions, which are sub-dimensions of emotional intelligence, affect psychological resilience statistically and positively. It has been determined that the sub-dimension that has the highest effect on psychological resilience was the evaluation of emotions. According to the results of the research, it is expected that developing the emotional intelligence of emergency health care personnel will strengthen their psychological resilience.