"Personality Correlates of Emotional Intelligence of Secondary Teacher Trainees "

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the personality correlates of emotional intelligence of secondary teacher trainees. Emotional Intelligence Scale and Cattell's 16 PF Inventory were used to collect data. A sample of 300 teacher trainees undergoing the B.Ed. course in 6 Colleges of Education during 2003-04 constituted the sample for the present study. In selecting the colleges as well as students, the random sampling technique was used. The Pearson's Product-moment Coefficient of Correlation technique, the Multiple Regression Analysis (linear), and the Path Analysis techniques were used. The study revealed that: (i) Personality factors like A, B, C, E, F G, H, and Q3 have positive association with emotional intelligence, personality factors like Q2, Q4, and 0 have negative relationship with emotional intelligence of teacher trainees, personality factors such as I, L, M, N, and Q1 do not have any association with emotional intelligence of teacher trainees; (ii) Factor — G seems to be the best predictor of emotional intelligence among all the predictor variables; (iii) Direct as well as indirect path coefficients of personality components like Factors A, B, C, E, G, H, Q2, Q3, Q4 were found to be significant, whereas, the path coefficients of personality components such as Factors F, I, L, M N, 0, Q, were found to be not significant.