A study of principals’ emotional intelligence in different educational stages and its relationship with their demographic characteristics
Subject Areas : Educational Science
ramezan
hasanzadeh
1
(دانشیار گروه روان شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ساری)
morteza
sadati
2
(کارشناس ارشد مدیریت آموزشی)
Keywords: Emotional intelligence, sex, Demographic characteristics, specialty, principals,
Abstract :
OBJECTIVE :The present study investigates principals’ emotional intelligence in different educational stages and its relationship with their demographic characteristics. It was hypothesized that emotional control and emotional management would positively relate to personnel performance. METHOD: This research is done by descriptive research. In this research , the sample included 140 principals (69men and 71 women) from region one of Ministry of Education and Training in Sari that were selected by using stratified random sampling. Subjects provided information about their EI and their demographic characteristics by completing the Travis Bradbery and Jean Geaves' Emotional Intelligence questionnaire and researcher made questionnaire. RESULTS :1-There were no differences in Principal's emotional intelligence in different stages(F=0/774,P>./.5).2-There were no differences in Principal's emotional intelligence with different managerial experiences(F=1/305,P>./.5).3-There were differences in Principal's emotional intelligence with respect to their gender(men and women) (t=2/285,P<./.5).4-There were differences in Principal's emotional intelligence with respect to their specialty(t=3/148,P<./.5)..5-There were no differences in Principal's emotional intelligence with different education(F=0/185,P<./.5).6-There were no differences in Principal's emotional intelligence with different ages(F=0/347,P>./.5). CONCLUSION :Emotional intelligence is a significant predictor of successful school administration. Specifically, the results of the present study suggest that professional development programs would be wise to focus on promoting or developing EI. Consistent with previous research, women were found to score higher than men on EI