The role of emotional intelligence in increasing quality of work life in school principals

The main aim of this research was to study the emotional intelligence and its relation to quality of work life of school principals. The current study is a descriptive co relational research. The sample was consisted the 139 school principals of Khorramabad city that who were selected by randomized stratified method. In order to collect the required data regarding research variables, the quality of work life questionnaire and emotional intelligence inventory were used. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson correlation coefficient and one sample t-, with SPSS software. On the basis of findings of the study, there was a positive correlation between quality of work life and emotional intelligence (p< 0/000) and its subscales namely, self awareness, self management, relation control and social awareness. Furthermore, results evident that the quality of work life of principals was high, but in case of emotional intelligence, principals were low in compare to mean of questionnaire. Increasing emotional intelligence is able to provide a better work environment for principals and for this cause, the performance of them grow to be enlarged. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu