The effect of Emotional Intelligence level on Quality of work life among Nursing Teachers

Abstract

Background: education staff's emotional Intelligence has a vital role for all work with student, especially nursing teachers because the presence of emotional intelligence improves the quality of work life for nursing and patients Aim of the study: assess the effect of emotional intelligence level and its relation to quality of work life among nursing teachers Design: descriptive correlative study Setting: was conducted in Technical institute of Nursing, Fayoum University at east of Cairo government Sample: Random samples Size: (53) nursing teacher involved both genders working at the above mentioned settings. Three Tools of data collection Structured questionnaire to assess A) the socio-demographic characteristics of nursing teachers) an emotional intelligence questionnaire to assess level of emotional intelligence C) Quality of work life scale to assess quality of work life. Results: more than two third of nursing teacher were female and had Bachelor degree and low scores of emotional intelligence were associated with low scores of quality of work life for nursing teachers But emotional intelligence components were not significantly correlated in Intrapersonal part, Interpersonal part and General mood but the quality of work life were significantly correlated in all items except Work environment and relation and cooperation Conclusion: The positive significant correlation between emotional intelligence with its components and the quality of work for nursing teachers..Recommendations: Further studies should be carried out all teachers in different school, institutes and universities and Designing training programs to increase the awareness of teachers about emotional intelligence and their effect on quality of work life.