Autorregulación emocional y desarrollo psicosocial en adolescentes. Una experiencia con estudiantes de secundaria del Liceo Hermano Miguel La Salle de Bogotá, DC.

Abstract

In an increasingly demanding world, emotional intelligence has become an essential skill for daily life. That is why the present research applied to the emotional experiences of a group of sixth and seventh grade adolescent students from the Hermano Miguel La Salle High School, explores how the ability to recognize, understand and manage emotions influences their social and personal development; analyzing the role of emotional self-regulation in the development of skills such as frustration tolerance and decision-making. Regarding this, the research contributes with the creation of a booklet, On Board of Myself, which provides students with bases for both the development, identification and recognition of those emotions that approach them at different moments of their daily life, as well as tools to understand the behavior that their emotionality leads them to assume and the respective physiological changes that occur when facing stressful situations and decision-making; Likewise, a group of twelve self-regulation strategies are developed that allow students to manage their emotions. The information was collected through interviews in the form of talks, biograms, self-reflection writings and the TMMS-24 test that allowed three key concepts to be identified: attention, clarity and repair in the face of their emotions. With this, it was found that some students have difficulties in identifying and recognizing their emotions, leading them to have a low tolerance for frustration and poor decision-making.