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Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety
2025. Vol. 2, no. 4, 119–132
doi:10.17759/epps.2025020408
ISSN: 3034-3666 (online)

Emotional intelligence characteristics of college students with deviant behavior

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. In modern society, emotional intelligence plays a vital role in productive interaction and effective influence on the social environment. It is emotional intelligence that ensures the successful socialization of adolescents, their adherence to normative rules, and helps prevent deviant behavior. Methods and materials. The study involved 52 college students aged 16—19. Comparison groups were divided into: Group 1: 26 students with disciplinary violations; Group 2: 26 students with no disciplinary violations. Methods: 1) emotional intelligence test (author: D.V. Lyusin); 2) method for determining the tendency to deviant behavior (author: A.N. Orel); 3) free discussion with the curators of the “Student Disciplinary Violations” groups (original development). Methods of mathematical statistics: Mann-Whitney U-test, Spearman correlation analysis. Results. Students prone to discipline violations have a higher tendency toward delinquent behavior (by 2,39 points), with higher tendencies in social desirability and dependence. Students without discipline violations have higher emotional intelligence scores on the following scales: intrapersonal emotional intelligence, general understanding of emotions, general emotional management, understanding of one's emotions, general level of emotional intelligence, and emotional management. The relationship between emotional intelligence scores and deviant behavior is more pronounced in the group of students with discipline violations. Inverse relationships were found between expression control and the tendency to give socially desirable responses (-0,438), intrapersonal emotional intelligence and tendency toward delinquent behavior (-0,427), as well as a positive relationship between the management of one's emotions and aggression (0,422). In the group of students without disciplinary violations, a positive relationship is observed: between intrapersonal emotional intelligence and the attitude towards socially desirable responses, between intrapersonal emotional intelligence and volitional control. Conclusions. There are differences in the level and structure of emotional intelligence in students with and without disciplinary violations.

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Keywords: deviant behavior, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, college students

Journal rubric: General Psychology and Psychology Safety of the Personality

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020408

Received 29.10.2025

Revised 24.11.2025

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For citation: Dutikova, G.V. (2025). Emotional intelligence characteristics of college students with deviant behavior. Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety, 2(4), 119–132. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020408

© Dutikova G.V., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Galina V. Dutikova, Teacher-Psychologist, Usman Multidisciplinary College, Usman, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9932-1224, e-mail: batrakova-galina@yandex.ru

Conflict of interest

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Ethics statement

The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Extreme Psychology of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (protocol No. 1, 2025/09/28).

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