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Relationship between the faculty members' emotional intelligence and educational performance at Urmia University

Nasser Rahmat, Hassan Ghalavandi, Akbar Jesarati

This study aims at investigating the relationship between the faculty members' emotional intelligence and educational performance at Urmia University. The statistical population includes all 450 faculty members at Urmia University during the academic year 2012-13; 110 statistical samples were selected according to the stratified random sampling proportional to the size. The research method was descriptive and correlative. In this study, two questionnaires of emotional intelligence and educational performance were applied as the measurement tools with the validity coefficients of 0.96 and 0.78, respectively. The research findings indicate that: There is a significant positive relationship between the faculty members' each component of emotional intelligence and educational performance (p<0.05). There is no significant difference between the faculty members' emotional intelligence and educational performance based on gender, academic rank and years of experience. Furthermore, the results of Pearson correlation coefficient indicate that there is no significant relationship between the faculty members' viewpoint on the emotional intelligence and educational performance based on the age.