This article presents the results of an exploratory study on the relationships between the emotional competencies and attitudes towards creativity in a sample of primary school students. This study is part of a wider project on the implementation of the curricular area “Emotional Education and Creativity,” a far-reaching innovation in the educational system of the Canary Islands, Spain. A validated questionnaire for the evaluation of emotional and creative variables from the teachers’ perspectives was used. The questionnaire was given to 230 primary school teachers, who used it to assess the emotional and creative competencies of 2540 schoolchildren. A bivariate correlation was carried out to establish the relationship between these competencies, and a multiple regression analysis was used to understand the influence of emotional skills on creativity. The results obtained confirmed the close relationship between the emotional dimension and the creative construct. Specifically, it was observed that emotional awareness was the competence with the closest relationship, together with the responsibility for one’s own emotions, and the one that had the greatest weight in explaining creative competences. This result emphasizes that emotional and creative competencies complement each other and highlights the importance of working on these competencies together. We are committed to continuing with this line of research that supports an emotional conception of creativity.

Emotional and creative competences are key for life and are acquired in contact with socialization agents. Emotional competences assessment is better done from a multidimensional 360 degree evaluation model. This study analyses the psychometric qualities of an instrument based on this model to assess students’ emotional and creative competences by their teachers. In this study 230 Primary school teachers valued 2,540 public school’s children in the Canary Islands. Factor validity was checked and factor structure was replicated in the main sample and the two sub-samples analysed. A high internal consistency was observed in this instrument. The study substantiates this as a rigorous instrument for teachers to asses their students’ emotional and creative competences in an easy, reliable, and valid way, and which is further adapted to the school reality. La competencia emocional y creativa es fundamental para la vida y se adquiere en contacto con agentes de socialización. Nuestra propuesta es que debe apresarse mediante el modelo de evaluación de 360 grados. Este trabajo se aborda desde este modelo y analiza las propiedades psicométricas de un instrumento dirigido a docentes para valorar las competencias emocionales y creativas del alumnado. Participaron 230 enseñantes de Educación Primaria, que valoraron a 2,540 escolares de centros públicos de Canarias. Se ha comprobado su validez factorial, replicándose la estructura del instrumento en la muestra y en las submuestras analizadas, manifestando a su vez una alta consistencia interna. Se ofrece un instrumento que apresa de forma sencilla, fiable y válida la observación de las competencias emocionales y creativas de los escolares desde el punto de vista de sus docentes, adaptado a la realidad escolar.