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ISSN Print: 2394-7500, ISSN Online: 2394-5869, CODEN: IJARPF

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Vol. 6, Issue 7, Part B (2020)

A descriptive study to assess the emotional intelligence among staff nurses at selected hospitals of Bangalore

A descriptive study to assess the emotional intelligence among staff nurses at selected hospitals of Bangalore

Author(s)
Hijam Rabina Devi and Jasmine Arul Rani
Abstract
Emotional intelligence is one of the virtues associated with success in life. It includes the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them. Developing emotional intelligent among the staff can solve many problems in health, education and management. There is a growing body of evidence regarding the emotional aspects of work in an organization. Emotional intelligence is a set of capability and ability and skills with outfit a person to adopt him/herself with successful environment in it. They believed emotional intelligence, skills develop and change in during the period, and it can develop by education and modified programs like therapeutic techniques.
Aim: To assess the Emotional Intelligence among staff nurse at selected hospitals, Bangalore.
Method: A non-experimental, descriptive design was selected for the study.
Sample and sampling technique: The participants are 100 staff nurses of Bangalore. A non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples for the study.
Tool and technique: Schutte self-report emotional intelligence questionnaire are used to collect the data from the subjects.
Results: It was observed that majority 59 (59%) of the respondents experience high level of emotional intelligence, remaining 41 (41%) of the respondents experience average level of emotional intelligence and none of the respondents experience low level of emotional intelligence. A significant association was found between emotional intelligence scores of staff nurses and socio-demographic variables are age (χ 2 = 4.18), marital status (χ 2= 5.35), professional qualification (χ 2= 6.54), co-worker relationship (χ 2= 4.92), type of family (χ 2= 5.15).
Conclusion: The mean emotional intelligence scores of staff nurses were found to be 135.90 with the mean percentage of 82.4% and a standard deviation of + 16.46.
Pages: 112-116  |  670 Views  126 Downloads
How to cite this article:
Hijam Rabina Devi, Jasmine Arul Rani. A descriptive study to assess the emotional intelligence among staff nurses at selected hospitals of Bangalore. Int J Appl Res 2020;6(7):112-116.
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