Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to explore the association between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of subject specialists of public higher secondary schools of district Lahore. For this purpose, a five-point Likert type scale, an emotional intelligence scale, and a Job Satisfaction Scale was used to measure emotional intelligence and job satisfaction respectively. The demographic variables were gender, locality, subject, academic qualification, age, and teaching experience whose percentages were calculated. Each scale was split into four components of each variable and then percentage responses mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis were applied to study the statistics of these variables. The mean score of financial matters was the lowest and that of understanding was the highest. The zero value of skewness and kurtosis showed that the data was normal. Furthermore, an independent sample t-test was applied to find the comparison of two variables based on gender discipline, marital status, and locality. ANOVA was used to find out the comparison of more than two variables academic qualification, age, and teaching experience. Correlation between the two variables the Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction was calculated by using Pearson’s coefficient which showed that there was a positive significant strong correlation between these two variables. Further regression analysis was done to find the description of the effect. There was a significant effect of emotional intelligence on job satisfaction. Independent variable managing was the best predictor of job satisfaction.
Highlights
Human beings are made up of various emotions like anger, fear, and joy
The present study was an effort to find an association between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of subject specialists
The results of the study are in line with the results of the study done by Al-Saeeed et al (2015) who found a strong relationship between emotional intelligence with job satisfaction
Summary
Human beings are made up of various emotions like anger, fear, and joy. Numerous psychologists take emotion as a combination of feelings, thinking, and experience which are often tangled with our mood, temperament, personality, disposition, creat ivity, and motivation. Emotional intelligence determines how we treat ourselves (Aykan, 2014). In this way, Emotional Intelligence is the sum of all traits and abilities that guide individual emotional practices by playing a multifunctional role of interconnected emotional, personal, and social abilities that stimulate a person to outperform by using all his abilities. Emotional Intelligence is the sum of all traits and abilities that guide individual emotional practices by playing a multifunctional role of interconnected emotional, personal, and social abilities that stimulate a person to outperform by using all his abilities In this way, he can handle demands and pressures in his workplace effectively and efficiently Bar-On & Parker (2000). It is the capability to understand one’s own emotions and those of others (Biswas, 2016)
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