en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research Article <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Background:</span>&nbsp;Emotional intelligence has a key role in the problems solving and decreasing of conflicts between thought and emotion. On the other hand, self-esteem and increasing of that from infancy to death has been considered as the most important psychosocial issue.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Objectives:</span>&nbsp;This study aimed to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem in bachelor students of nursing and midwifery schools in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Methods:</span>&nbsp;This cross-sectional study was conducted in Hamadan University of medical sciences in Hamadan city in Iran at 2016. A three-part questionnaire was used for data collection, which is included demographic characteristics, Sharing emotional intelligence questionnaire and Cooper Smith self-esteem questionnaire. The Obtained data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 23) with descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation coefficient.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Results:</span>&nbsp;The most of studied subjects were female (68.9%) and single (86.8%) with mean age of 23 years and the standard deviation of 4.92. The results showed that the mean scores of emotional intelligence and self-esteem in studied students were 107.97 &plusmn; 11.34 and 34.11 &plusmn; 6.56, respectively, which was higher than the average level. Moreover, there was a direct and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem as well as all of its sub-scales (P < 0.001).</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Conclusions:</span>&nbsp;Since the people with high emotional intelligence can establish a reasonable balance between emotions and reason that are with strong self-esteem. However, it is recommended that several workshops should be held in order to promote emotional intelligence of students at the University.</p> </aside> Student, Emotional Intelligence, Self-Esteem 19 24 http://ajnpp.umsha.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2-68&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Farshid Shamsaei 1003194753284600329 1003194753284600329 No Associate Professor, Behavioral Disorders and Substance Abuse Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, IR Iran Foad Yousefi 1003194753284600330 1003194753284600330 No MSc Student in Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, IR Iran Amir Sadeghi sadeghi1965@gmail.com 1003194753284600331 1003194753284600331 Yes Assistant Professor, Mother and Child Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, IR Iran