Effectiveness of Emotional Intelligence in Mitigating School Bullying: A Systematic Review in the Ibero-American Context

Abstract

The violence among couples constitutes a systemic problem that commits the student's integral development and it challenges the stability of the educational environments in the current Ibero-American context. Before this scenario, it is traced as objective to analyze the incidence of the emotional intelligence as protective factor in front of the school pursuit and the ciberacoso in the basic education. The study was articulated by means of a systematic revision under the guidelines PRISM 2020, selecting empiric studies and revisions published between 2020 and 2025 in bases of high impact as Scopus, SciELO and Dialnet whose methodological quality was verified through the tool MMAT. The thematic analysis of the data reveals a significant inverse correlation among the competitions socioafectivas, specifically the clarity and the emotional repair; and the perpetration of aggressive behaviors, being also identified as a decisive mediator in the reduction of the digital violence. Although the evidence supports the curricular implementation of the emotional education to improve the coexistence, the heterogeneity in the interventions and the lack of longitudinal designs suggests caution in the generalization of the discoveries, urging to future investigation lines that integrate technological variables.