MINDFULNES AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: A review of the scientific literature between the years 2015 – 2020

Abstract

The present study allowed to know the mindfulness and emotional intelligence in the educational system. The objective was to know the influence of mindfulness and emotional intelligence in the educational system, through a systematic review between the years 2015 to 2020. The methodology used is a systematic review of papers published in three very relevant databases such as Scopus, Scielo and EBSCOhots, allowing to obtain 48 original scientific papers, which were properly ordered in a database. Papers written in Spanish, English and Portuguese were considered. Finally, from an exhaustive filtering, 12 studies were selected. The results reflect that according to the empirical studies analyzed, mindfulness and emotional intelligence have a significant influence on the educational system, since the awareness of feelings and how to handle them allows the people to be competent in different situations of their lives. At the same time, mindfulness programs applied as a strategy to improve emotional intelligence are obtaining good results and should be replicated in different educational realities to have more information about what should be changed to improve. These results are important because they allow to know the influence of mindfulness and emotional intelligence in the educational system.