Foundation:

Adequate sleep is a physiological necessity of the first order. Issues as daily as academic load, housework, or night work, contribute to some depriving themselves of recommended sleep hours, and this brings consequences for health, mood, and emotional intelligence.

Objective:

to describe the relationship between daytime sleepiness and emotional intelligence in university students.

Methods:

descriptive, correlational study, with 140 students from the sixth to the tenth cycle of the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation degree, at Norbert Wiener University, Lima, Peru. Epworth’s sleepiness scale was applied to assess daytime sleepiness, and the Trait Meta Mood Scale for emotional intelligence. By means of Spearman’s Rho statistical test, the correlation between variables was evaluated.

Results:

the students´ average age was 25.73 ± 4.2 years, and an average time hours of sleep was 5.86 ± 1.28 hours. The mean value of daytime sleepiness was 9.95 ± 3.6; This was mild in most cases (69.65%). Emotional intelligence had an average value of 78.66 ± 13.08, and the repair factor was the highest score (28.36 ± 5.63), followed by clarity (25.91 ± 5.58) and attention (24.38 ± 5.50). A weak negative correlation was observed between daytime sleepiness and emotional intelligence (p = 0.058).

Conclusion:

daytime sleepiness has consequences on the behavior of reactions comprised by emotional intelligence. The analyzed University Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation students are mainly characterized by mild daytime sleepiness and adequate emotional intelligence.

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