Characterization of social skills and emotion management of students in a public Peruvian university based on Plithogenic Statistics and Indeterminate Likert Scale

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate whether social skills are a factor related to emotion management since inadequate 
emotion management is causing mental illnesses in this century, such as stress and depression. The objective was to determine 
the relationship between social skills and emotional management in students at the National University of Central Peru. To 
estimate social skills, the scales proposed by the Technical Team of the Department of Mental Health Promotion and Prevention 
of Psychosocial Problems of Peru were applied to a random sample of 184 from a population of 352 students. The variable of 
adequate management of emotions was measured using an Indeterminate Likert Scale since we consider that emotion has mul
tiple components and therefore it is more precise to measure it when all the components are taken into account at the same time. 
To process the collected data, plithogenic statistics were applied that allow the study of events of a multivariate nature in an 
indeterminate framework.