The Investigation of Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfactions with Burnout Level of Academıcıans

Abstract

The key objective of this study is to ascertain if the emotional intelligence factors vary among some demographic characteristics through exposing the relationships between emotional intelligence factors and job satisfactions with burnout level. For this purpose, a research was conducted on total 291 academic staffs who work in various universities. This research was used a total of three scales were used for data collection. Measure emotional intelligence Chen (2004 and 2006) scale developed by EI12; to measure job satisfaction, D.J Weiss, R. V. Dawis, G.W England, L.H Lofquist developed by the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ-Short Form); to measure Maslach and Jackson burnout level (1981) developed by Maslach Burnout Inventory scale. Findings of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between the subscales of emotional intelligence, job satisfactions and burnout. It was also determined that emotional intelligence factors vary among some demographic characteristics (gender, marital status and age)