Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence Skills and Relationship with Students’ Academic Achievement

Abstract

Emotional intelligence and critical thinking are both basic elements of achievement of success, especially when they are raised in education area and in medical education. Thus, it seems that the students with higher ability in critical thinking and emotional intelligence certainly achieve better academic achievement compared to those who lack such characteristics. Current research was conducted aiming at investigating critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills and relationship with students’ academic achievement in the last year of nursing in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences during 2016-2017.