Emotional intelligence and professional adjustment of secondary school teachers

Education system around the world have changed a lot. In this changing scenario, teachers have to perform many duties simultaneously, which sometimes creates pressure on them. As a result, they fails to understand their students’ emotions, not able to make healthy relation with their students and colleagues as well. To deal with this kind of situation it is very important for them to understand the concept of Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity of individuals which helps them to recognize their own emotions and also others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goal(s). This is very important feature of human being which is develop throughout the life. EI helps a person to dealing with every complex situations in personal and professional life as well. A person can balanced in his life if he is aware of their emotion. Keeping this thing in mind,the researchers’ was conducted this research on secondary school teachers to analyze their Emotional Intelligence and Professional Adjustment. For this purpose a sample of 120 secondary school teachers was randomly selected from 10 schools in Howrah districts. Emotional Intelligence scale constructed by P.Srinivasan/K.Murugesan and self-made questionnaire of Professional Adjustment were used to collect data. Results revealed that (a) no significant difference was found between male and female teachers in their emotional intelligence, (b) there was significant difference found between rural and urban school teachers in their emotional intelligence, (c) no gender wise difference found in professional adjustment, but significant difference exists between rural and urban school teachers in their professional adjustment, (d) negative correlation was found between emotional intelligence and professional adjustment.