PSYCHOSOCIAL ATMOSPHERE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SARA,PROVINCE OF ILOILO PHILIPPINES

The level of psychosocial atmosphere and emotional intelligence among local government personnel in the Municipality of Sara, Province of Iloilo, Philippines during the year 2016-2017 as affected by the psychosocial elements effort, reward, over commitment, effort-reward ratio, procedural, and interactional and emotional awareness, emotional management, motivating oneself, empathy, and social skills were ascertained. Personnel discerned a very high level of psychosocial atmosphere from psychosocial elements. Over commitment gave the highest level of psychosocial atmosphere from the psychosocial atmosphere factors and effort gave the lowest result. The results revealed that there were no significant differences among the levels of psychosocial atmosphere. Motivating Oneself gave the highest level of emotional intelligence and emotional management gave the least emotional intelligence. The emotional intelligence gave a very high level of satisfaction and showed no significant differences in the analysis of variance. The result showed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the level of psychosocial atmosphere and emotional intelligence.