The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Exams' Anxiety: Experimental Study in High School Students

The changing conditions at the social, political and economic levels have a direct impact on the family and, consequently, on children"s behavior in the school environment. Based on this, it is questionable whether students" self-esteem and self-perception affect student performance. Thus, the aim of the study is to investigate the existence of anxiety disorders in high school students, as well as, to examine the levels of emotional intelligence, reading self-perception and the state of anxiety in which they are. From the results of the study, there is a positive correlation between emotional intelligence, school of study and scientific choice of students and then it is pointed out that the demographic characteristics associated with exam stress are the sex, the school , the scientific field of choice, the learning difficulties, the father"s profession and the mother"s profession.