Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making: A Correlational Study of School Principals
The objective of the study was to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and the decision-making of secondary school principals. The current study was descriptive and quantitative in nature, and a survey method was applied to collect the data.All the secondary school principals working in District Haveli and Punch were the population of the study. The instrument used was a self-developed questionnaire to collect the data. The questionnaire was used comprising of three parts. Part A of the questionnaire was used for demographic data, part B was used to measure emotional intelligence, and Part C of the questionnaire was utilized to measure the decision-making styles. The researcher collected data from all secondary school principals of both districts, District Haveli and District Bagh, including private and public school principals, using a universal sampling technique. Data were analyzed through SPSS by using Pearson's correlation analysis. It is inferred that a significant and strong positive relationship exists between emotional intelligence and decision-making styles of principals.
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Emotional intelligence, Decision Making, Correlational Study, School Principals
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(1) Nazir Haider Shah
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Naqeeb ul Khalil Shaheen
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
(3) Sobia Yaseen
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.