Emotional intelligence (EI) has become a psychological construct that has gained special interest in recent years. Mayer and Salovey (1997) defined EI as a set of four capacities related to the emotion: perceiving, using, understanding and managing emotions. Others authors stated out that EI can be conceived as a constellation of personality traits related to emotion (Petrides & Furnham, 2000). This theoretical debate led to two main streams of research: EI as capacity; and EI as a personality trait. In this sense, there are some meta-analysis that indicate the relevance of EI in different areas such as health (Martins, Ramalho & Morin, 2010; Schutte, Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Bhullar, & Rooke, 2007), subjective wellbeing (Sánchez-Álvarez, Extremera, & Berrocal, 2016), academic performance (Perera & DiGiacomo, 2013) and work performance (Joseph, Jin, Newman, & O'Boyle, 2015). These findings emphasizes the importance of EI in different areas of life. EI interventions have proliferated in diverse contexts (educational, clinical and organizational). These interventions have presented promising results; however, more evaluative research is needed to enrich the evidence of their positive impact on different populations (Schutte, Malouff, & Thorsteinsson, 2013). The present symposium aims to provide more efficacy studies of EI interventions in the educational context. Firstly, the VERA Program and its effects on the levels of emotional competence of primary school students will be presented. Secondly, the effects of the mindfulness program "Mindkinder" on the psychosocial adjustment of children's education students will be explained. Third, "DEL REVÉS" or "INSIDE OUT", an emotional intelligence program to improve coexistence and prevent BULLYING dynamics in primary school students will be discussed. Finally, the effects of the “Dulcinea” program for emotional education on socio and school adaptation of secondary education students will be presented.

Dr. Juan Carlos Pérez-González has developed his academic activity at the University by doing activities of research, teaching, and management. He is an expert in psychological evaluation and educational diagnosis. His research focuses on the evaluation of emotional intelligence and emotional education, as well as the training of teachers and educational counselors. He has been a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology (at the sixth best in the world, QS Top Universities, 2013) and the Faculty of Brain Sciences of the University College of London (UCL), the Institute of Education (IoE) at the University of London, and at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. He has also been visiting professor (Erasmus +) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a member of the Iberoamerican Association for Individual Differences Research (ISSID, Spanish acronym) of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE). He is a founder member and the current secretary of the Ibero-American Association for the Investigation of Individual Differences (AIIDI). He has published in prestigious scientific journals such as Cognition & Emotion, Motivation & Emotion, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Personality and Individual Differences, or Emotion Review. *** T R A I N I N G: He is doctor in Education from the UNED, with European Honours. He received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. He holds a Master's Degree in Social Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a specialist in e-learning by the UNED. He holds a degree in Psychopedagogy at the University of Huelva, and postgraduate studies in Cognitive Education at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and Statistics and Psychometrics at the University of Cambridge (UK).

Dr. Javier Cejudo has a degree in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid, 1998. He holds a degree in Psychopedagogy from the UNED (National University of Distance Education, 2007) and a Doctor of Education (UNED, 2015). He is currently Professor at the Faculty of Education of Ciudad Real, where he teaches at the levels of Primary Education and Early Childhood Education. His main line of research is related to the promotion of emotional intelligence education and socio-emotional competencies in education. His PhD thesis is entitled "Design, development and evaluation of the “Dulcinea, a emotional education program based on the integration of models of emotional intelligence in a secondary education center. Other current lines of research are teacher training in emotional education and psychological well-being. He has published several articles, books and chapter books, as well as numerous contributions to national and international conferences. He is a lecturer in the Master's Degree in Applied Psychology (UCLM) in the course "Emotional intelligence in socio-educational contexts”. He also teaches in the postgraduate University Specialist of Diagnosis and emotional education in the Faculty of Education of the UNED. He has also participated in numerous teacher training courses. Apart from the research and teaching work, He works in the Laboratory of Emotional Education (EDUEMO) of the UNED since its foundation in 2013.