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Teaching practice involves continuous exposure to stress situations. Given the scarcity of studies that identify coping patterns from a person-centered approach we intended to: 1) identify coping profiles in teachers; 2) analyze whether perceived emotional intelligence determines the probability of belonging to the identified profiles; and 3) test whether membership in a particular profile is related to a health outcome such as burnout. Two hundred and fifty teachers (161 women) participated in the study by responding to the Trait Meta-Mood Scale for the evaluation of perceived emotional intelligence, the COPE questionnaire for the evaluation of coping strategies and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey for the evaluation of burnout. A latent profile analysis yielded three profiles: 1) "adaptive copers"; 2) "behavioural evaders with broad strategies"; and 3) "cognitive evaders with consumption-based strategies". Results show that the emotional intelligence dimensions contribute to explaining membership in related profiles with better health outcomes. In terms of profile-related outcomes, the profile of "cognitive evaders with consumption-based strategies" shows the highest levels of burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main objective of this research was to analyze whether the Program for Prisoners for Emotional Domestic Violence (Rodríguez-Espartal, 2012) is more effective than cognitive-behavioral treatment or no treatment in inmates imprisoned for violence against women. Participants were 36 male imprisoned for crimes related to violence against women in the Provincial Prison of Jaén II, divided into three groups according to treatment: cognitive-behavioral therapy (n = 11), emotional (n = 13), and control (n = 12). The efficacy of treatment was measured by its influence on a series of cognitive behavioral variables: distorted thoughts about women and the use of violence, expectations about change, aggression, anger, impulsivity, and stages of change. There was a greater decrease in distorted thoughts about women and the use of violence and an increase in the expectations about change in inmates who received emotional treatment. No change was found in other variables among inmates receiving treatment but there was an increase in negative results in the control group. Our results highlight the need for batterer intervention programs and to select the treatment that best fits the characteristics of these men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]