Table 4.

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Behavior (N = 266).

	Perception of emotions	Social skills or managing others’ emotions	Managing emotions in the self	Utilizing emotions	Total emotional intelligence
Variable	r	r	r	r	r
Avoidance	.189**	.306**	.157**	.160**	.428**
Problem solving	.277**	.348**	.155**	.212**	.513**
Stay optimistic	.225**	.193**	.172**	.166**	.376**
Transference	.255**	.339**	.153**	.164**	.471**
Coping behavior	.283**	.361**	.161**	.214**	.542**

^*Correlation is significant at level of 0.05.

^**Correlation is significant at the 0.01.