@misc{10481/62023,
year = {2019},
month = {4},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62023},
abstract = {Head teachers are exposed to a highly emotional and stressful job, and they need
a sufficient combination of professional competencies in order to deal with daily
challenges in schools. Recent studies have shown the importance of developing
emotional competencies such as emotional intelligence (EI) in teachers in order to
improve their professional development and to ensure the adequate functioning of the
school. However, rather less is known about the ability EI of head teachers. The aim
of the present study was to evaluate the ability EI of public school head teachers
and compare this ability with those working in other positions within the school. For
these purposes, 393 participants (35 head teachers, 39 middle leaders, 236 tutors,
and 86 teachers) aged between 24 and 62 years (M = 40.26; SD = 9.27) completed
the mayer-salovey-caruso emotional intelligence test (MSCEIT). The results revealed a
significantly higher total EI for head teachers than teachers, along with higher scores in
the understanding branch of the MSCEIT for the head teachers compared with workers
in other positions. In addition, on this EI branch, tutors also achieved higher scores
than the teachers. We also evaluated the alternative hypothesis that years of teaching
experience could explain the relationship between work position and the EI scores, and
found no evidence in support of this possibility. Limitations and future lines of research
are discussed.},
organization = {This work was supported by the project Innovation and
Development Agency of Andalusia, Spain (Grant No. SEJ-07325)
The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Grant
No. PSI2017-84170-R). AM-R was supported by a Juan de
la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish MINECO
(Grant No. FJCI2015-25600).},
publisher = {Frontiers in Media},
keywords = {Head teacher training},
keywords = {Emotional intelligence},
keywords = {Leadership},
title = {A Comparison of the Ability Emotional Intelligence of Head Teachers With School Teachers in Other Positions},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00841},
author = {Gutiérrez Cobo, María José and Cabello González, Rosario and Rodríguez-Corrales, Juan and Megías Robles, Alberto and Gómez Leal, Raquel and Fernández-Berrocal, Pablo},
}