Adolescent aggression is a global public health with long-lasting and costly emotional, social, and economic consequences, and it is of vital importance to identify those variables that can reduce these behaviors in this population. Therefore, there is a need to establish the protective factors of aggressive behavior in adolescence. While some research has demonstrated the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and various aggressive responses in adolescence, indicating that EI—or the ability to perceive, use, understand, and regulate emotions—could be considered a protective factor for the development of aggressive behavior in adolescence, the strength of this effect is not clear. The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature concerning the relationship between aggressive behavior and EI in adolescents and provide a reliable estimate of the relationship between both constructs through a meta-analysis. For this purpose, we searched for relevant articles in English and Spanish in Medline, PsycINFO, and Scopus, obtaining 17 selectable articles based on the search terms used in research in the adolescent population. These studies provide scientific evidence of the relationship between the level of EI assessed from the three theoretical models of EI (performance-based ability model, self-report ability model, and self-report mixed model) and various aggressive responses, showing that adolescents with higher levels of EI show less aggressive behavior. Implications for interventions and guidelines for future research are discussed.

青少年攻击行为是一种全球公共卫生问题，会带来长期且代价高昂的情感、社会和经济后果，因此确定可以减少该人群这些行为的变量至关重要。因此，有必要建立青少年攻击性行为的保护因素。虽然一些研究已经证明了情商 (EI) 与青春期各种攻击性反应之间的关系，但表明 EI（或感知、使用、理解和调节情绪的能力）可以被视为攻击性行为发展的保护因素在青春期，这种效果的强度尚不清楚。本研究的目的是对有关青少年攻击性行为与 EI 之间关系的文献进行系统回顾，并通过荟萃分析提供对这两种结构之间关系的可靠估计。为此，我们在 Medline、PsycINFO 和 Scopus 中搜索了英语和西班牙语的相关文章，根据青少年人群研究中使用的搜索词获得了 17 篇可选择的文章。这些研究为从 EI 的三种理论模型（基于绩效的能力模型、自我报告能力模型和自我报告混合模型）评估的 EI 水平与各种攻击性反应之间的关系提供了科学证据，表明青少年有较高水平的 EI 表现出较少的攻击性行为。