Investigating the relation between five personality features with Emotional Intelligence and its aspects in managers and staffs of Hospital

Abstract

Manpower is one of the factors that affects the survival of organizations and is always considered by authorities and managers of organizations such as hospitals. The objective of this research is to investigate the relation between five big factors of personality with emotional intelligence and its aspects on managers and staffs. The research method is descriptive and of correlation type. The statistical population of this research was all managers and staffs of NagayaHospital. The research sample contains 300 individuals (188 female and 112 male) which were selected through random sampling. Research measuring tools consist of Neo five factor scale and emotional intelligence of Austin et al (2004). Research findings were analyzed by using correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Pearson correlation analysis showed that there exists a meaningful positive relation between personality features of conscientiousness, openness to experience and extraversion with emotional intelligent and its aspects and a negative relation between neuroticism and with emotional intelligence. Also regression analysis results showed that extraversion and openness to experience with positive relation and neuroticism with negative relation are the predictors of emotion regulation aspect and personality features of openness to experience, neuroticism and extraversion are predictors of emotion evaluation aspect, and again extraversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness are predictors of emotion exploiting aspect of hospital managers and personnel. Research results in general shows that neuroticism, is the best predictor of emotional intelligence of managers and staffs which can act as a vulnerable factor and whatever this factor is stronger in managers and personnel, the probability of emerging work problems such as low motivation and performance reduction is higher.