Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness of Principals in Ogoja Educational Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria: Implication for Counseling

Rev Sr Dr Mary Juliana Ada ,Georgina E Okoli

doi:10.7176/jep/10-27-02

Abstract

Emotional intelligence as a predictor of principals’ managerial effectiveness in secondary schools in Ogoja Educational Zone of Cross River State was investigated. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Simple random sampling was used to select 20 principals and 160 teachers and administered Emotional intelligence test and teachers’ questionnaire. Pearson Correlation analysis was used at 0.05 significance level. There was a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and managerial effectiveness of principals. Principals with high emotional intelligence scored higher than their counterparts with low emotional intelligence. It was recommended that regular workshops and seminars should be organized to develop or improve the level of emotional intelligence of principals. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Managerial, Effectiveness and Principal DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-27-02 Publication date :September 30 th 2019

Highlights

Parrott (2001) defined emotion as a mental and physiological state associated with a variety of feelings which is outside an individual’s conscious control. Eaton and Johnson (2007) suggested that one need not to be a slave to emotions because they can be regulated through reflection and conscious control by applying emotional intelligence
The results show that the calculated r-value is given as 0.05. the t-value (t-calculated) of significance is given as 7.45 which is higher than the critical value of t at 0.05 level or significance, hypothesis 1 is rejected indicating a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and managerial effectiveness of the principals
Hypothesis 2 is rejected which shows that there is a significant relationship between test scores of principals with high emotional intelligence when compared to their counterparts with low emotional intelligence

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Introduction

Parrott (2001) defined emotion as a mental and physiological state associated with a variety of feelings which is outside an individual’s conscious control. Eaton and Johnson (2007) suggested that one need not to be a slave to emotions because they can be regulated through reflection and conscious control by applying emotional intelligence. To determine the degree of relationship between main texts scores of principals with high emotional intelligence and their counterparts with low managerial intelligence. 2. What is the degree of relationship between main texts scores of principals with high emotional intelligence and their counterparts with low managerial intelligence?. There is no significant relationship between the main texts scores of principals with high emotional www.iiste.org intelligent and their counterparts with low emotional intelligence?. Research design The study used descriptive survey research design to collect data from teachers in order to ascertain the degree of relationship between the level of principals’ emotional intelligence and their managerial effectiveness in Ogoja Educational Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. Method of Data Collection and Analysis: The researcher administered the emotional intelligence test personally to the principals and the questionnaire to the teachers for the purpose of generating data for the study. All the hypotheses were tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation at the significance level of 0.05

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