A Study on Emotional Intelligence of Secondary School Teachers of Assam

Emotional Intelligence is very much important to a teacher. It again depends on the emotional health of a teacher. According to Goleman, emotional health of a teacher depends on the following components – i) self-management, ii) Emotional self-awareness, iii) Managing one‘s own decisions, self-motivation, developing empathy iv) personal and work level. EI of a teacher helps to establish social relationships and managing emotions in others. A teacher with high EI communicates with constructive goal in mind and controls his or her emotions carefully rather than just reacting to a situation solely based on impulse generated by an emotion-generating event. The major objectives of this study were to assess the level of Emotional Intelligence, among the secondary school teachers of Assam and also to study the Emotional Intelligence of secondary school teachers of Assam in relation to Gender and Location variable. In this study the investigators used descriptive Survey method of Educational Research in order to find out the Emotional Intelligence of secondary school teachers of Assam. The researcher found that majority of the secondary school teachers of Assam had shown moderate level of Emotional Intelligence and there were no significant difference in their level of Emotional Intelligence of secondary school teachers of Assam in relation to Gender and Location.