A Study on The Relationship Between Online Learning and Emotional Quotient of College Students during the Period of Epidemic Prevention and Control

Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 forced school education from offline to online, and then the effectiveness of online teaching has become a close concern of educators. According to the interview, college students were easy to be emotional instability during the time of online learning, which made their life rhythms disordered, academic performances declined as well as bad mood appeared frequently. Hence, this paper mainly discusses the relationship between online teaching and emotional quotient of college students during the period of epidemic prevention and control. Methods: Based on the interviews with college students, the questionnaire was designed by EIS, IRI-C and Teachers’ personality test. We took the college students as Subjects of investigation, and collected 372 effective electronic questionnaires nationally. 12 invalid questionnaires were deleted,372 valid questionnaires remained, and the effective recovery rate was 96.88%. Factor analysis and Hierarchical regression were performed with SPSS 19.0 and Excel to test the correlation and moderating effect. Results: (1) There is a strong correlation between online learning and emotional quotient of college students during the period of epidemic prevention and control. The five main factors that affect the emotional quotient of college students are self-control ability, discernment, interpersonal relationship, self-motivation, teachers’ character. (2) The influence of teachers’ character on students’ interpersonal relationship has an indirect effect on college students’ emotional quotient. (3) Self-control ability, discernment, interpersonal relationship, self-motivation, teachers’ character and the emotional quotient of college students are in good condition. College students have strong empathy, but low self-control ability. Conclusions: The emotional quotient of college students is affected by internal and external factors. Therefore, to improve the emotional quotient level of college students, we need to pay attention to not only internal factors, but also external factors.