Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction of School Teachers

Abstract

Essential role of teacher is effective teaching, student’s overall development, to be a model of appropriate behavior, making healthy relationships with students, parents and faculties. Emotions plays important role in handling relationship. Human being has interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects of emotions. Job satisfaction affects on duties of teachers. Studies revealed that emotional intelligence and job satisfaction has positive correlation. The present study is going to focus on the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of school teachers. In the present study N=40 government school teachers were selected. Emotional Intelligence and job satisfaction were measured with standardized tools. Data analysis was carried out using Pearson Product Moment correlation. It was found that job satisfaction and emotional intelligence is positively correlated (r=.39, p<.05).