Emotional intelligence and job satisfaction: Testing the mediatory role of positive and negative affect at work

Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Zampetakis, Leonidas A.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.004

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“…The results of the present study are the same as results of the studies of Kafetsios and etc [15], but they are different from the studies of Weinberger [12], and Mokhtari and etc [17] which showed there is no significant relationship between the factors of emotional intelligence and satisfaction with the coefficient of r=0.202. In the examination of the relationship between emotional intelligence and the intention (to stay in job), the results showed that percentage42.25 of the changes of the intention can be explained by emotional intelligence and intention to stay in a job.…”

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Emotional Intelligence and Job Motivation of Member Faculties in Medical Sciences Universities

2016

IJAAEE

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Abstract-One of the important issues of the organizations ishow to motivate their staff to work and get more exploitation. Concerning motivation and promoting via training emotional intelligence is associated with higher efficiency and exploitation in an organization, so the researchers aimed to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and professional motivation among faculty members of Mazandaran University of medical sciences. This is a descriptive study, which included 120 of the faculty members of MUMS via stratified randomized sampling. The participants measured by standard emotional intelligence and professional motivation questionnaires. Data analyzed via software SPSS 16 using Pierson correlation method. The findings of this study showed the average total score of motivation in the faculty members was 173.76 and the average total score of emotional intelligence was 116.52. There was a significant correlation between total score of emotional intelligence with professional motivation. In addition, there is a significant correlation between the total score of emotional intelligence and each variables of the professional motivation questionnaire. Enhancement of emotional intelligence results to higher professional motivation, so promotion of emotional intelligence skills effects motivation level, professional progress, functional progress and finally exploitation and more profit. Companies and organizations can identify the reducing factors of the motivation in the faculty members and determine the ways to get rid of them.

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Emotional Intelligence and Job Motivation of Member Faculties in Medical Sciences Universities

2016

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“…EI was significantly and positively related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment (Guleryuz et al, 2008). Kafetsios and Zampetakis (2008) indicated that positive and negative affect and research substantially mediate the relationship between EI and job satisfaction with positive effect exerting a stronger influence.…”

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Emotional Intelligence Dimensions, Job Satisfaction and Primary School Teachers

Kumar

2016

IRA-JEMS

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In this study, the researcher has tried to identify the relationship of five dimensions of emotional intelligence (Self-Awareness, Managing Emotions, Emotional Maturity, Empathy and Social competency & social skills) INTRODUCTIONNow a day, teaching profession has become extremely challenging. In this age of computer and internet, information is just one click away from the students. This situation forces teachers into a very hectic and busy schedule. Due to which teachers are feeling stressed out, unhappy and dissatisfied. Besides teachings, primary teachers are forced to undertake many tasks which are not intended for them. Students" performance is usually related to teachers" ability to teach and function effectively. Intellectual intelligence (IQ) does not guarantee well being. In fact without Emotional intelligence (EI), a person can have the best training, an analytical mind and endless supply of ideas but will not make a great leader (Goleman, 2001).

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“…Emotional intelligence includes the ability to enhance the quality of life and society. In fact, we can say that emotional intelligence involves the ability to perceive and to express emotion accurately and their use to facilitate understanding of the thoughts and emotions management for emotional growth (Lopes et al, 2006;Kafetsios & Zampetakis, 2008). However, a number of concepts including emotional competence, emotional creativity, accurate empathy, as well as relative experts and researchers have been used for the description of these structures.…”

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Emotional Intelligence and job performance: Evidence from railroad industry

Bahmanabadi¹,

Jafari²

2014

10.5267/j.msl

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This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance in railroad industry. The study uses two questionnaires, one for measuring emotional intelligence adopted from Salovey and Mayer (1989) [Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1989). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9(3), 185-211.] and the other one for measuring job performance. The study selects 300 full time employees who work for railroad industry in city of Tehran, Iran, distributes two questionnaires among the employees and managed to collect all filled ones. Using Spearman correlation, the study has determined a positive and meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance (r = 0.796, Sig. = 0.000). In addition, there were positive and meaningful relationships between four components of emotional intelligence, namely consciousness (r = 0.642, Sig. = 0.000), self-regulation (r = 0.41, Sig. = 0.000), self-awareness ( r = 0.552, Sig. = 0.000) and social skills (r = 0.524, Sig. = 0.000).

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Emotional intelligence and job satisfaction: Testing the mediatory role of positive and negative affect at work

Cited by 324 publications

References 26 publications

Emotional Intelligence and Job Motivation of Member Faculties in Medical Sciences Universities

Emotional Intelligence and Job Motivation of Member Faculties in Medical Sciences Universities

Emotional Intelligence Dimensions, Job Satisfaction and Primary School Teachers

Emotional Intelligence and job performance: Evidence from railroad industry

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