An Empirical Study of Emotional Intelligence of Post-Graduate and undergraduate School teachers of Delhi

Emotional Quotient or EQ, popularized by Danial Goleman, a much talked about term in present scenario has already proved its importance in different aspect of human life. The place of teacher as nation builder has been very well established. The present study was taken up to find out correlation between emotional intelligence of teachers and various components of emotional intelligence. The framework within which the research was conducted was basically descriptive in nature and the sample under study comprised of 100 school teachers (both trained graduate teachers and Post graduate teachers) from different private and government schools of Delhi. The results showed that Emotional intelligence level of teachers’ has high positive correlation with: awareness of self and others (.755) and Interpersonal management of teachers (.757); moderate positive correlation with Professional Orientation of teachers (.539) and low positive correlation with Intrapersonal management of teachers (.163). The results also show that the teachers have low awareness of self and others and they also lag behind in Interpersonal management.