Background: In adolescence, the individual's personality and social adjustment emerge, where psychological, physical, biological, and social factors determine health.Emotional intelligence (EI) is a psychological construct that improves individuals' quality of life.Therefore, this study aimed to identify the importance of EI in young adolescent students and its relationship with different psychological variables, presenting the most characteristic instruments for its measurement.Method: This review followed the PRISMA guidelines.Thus, 687 documents were obtained, which, after applying the established criteria, provided 24 studies for review.Results: The results comprise a total sample of 26510 adolescents, aged 10 to 19 years, revealing the importance of EI in the adolescent population for their well-being and improving their quality of life.Among the EI instruments, the most widely used was the Trait-Meta-Mood-Scale (TMMS-24).Conclusions: further studies should be conducted to verify these findings.Finally, future intervention programs should consider the results presented in this study to corroborate these findings.