SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT AS THE PREDICTOR OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG THE FACULTYMEMBERS WORKING IN CHENNAI

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Sowndarya A. and Dr. Elavarasan R.

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Emotional intelligence has its beginning in spiritual quotient. When a person has a strong spiritual quotient, this increase the emotional intelligence. Spiritual quotient can overcome fear, anxiety, worry and despair. This paper investigates the relationship between spiritual quotient of the faculty member and their emotional intelligence. Thus, descriptive research design is applied.Questionnaire has been considers as a research tool. Spiritual quotient has been measured by adopting Rojas (2002) tool. In this tool spiritual quotient have been analysed with 10 dimensions with 30 statements in the 5 point likert scale. Asiff, et. al., (2011) tool has been adopted for measuring emotional intelligence. A sample of 338 faculty members have been survived by using convenient sampling method. Chi-square, correlation and regression have been applied. The study result revealed that spiritual quotient have been associated with emotional intelligence of the employees. Spiritual quotient have been positively predicts emotional intelligence of the employees. So, it is concluded that both spiritual quotient intelligence and emotional intelligence complement each other.

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