Status of emotional intelligence in the practice of school leaders in private primary schools in Bole Sub city.
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2022-11
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was mainly conducted to examine the status of emotional intelligence of school principals in private primary school of Bole sub city in Addis Ababa. The participants of the study were 73 primary school principals (Male=29 & Female=44) selected for this research and they were made to fill emotional intelligence questionnaire having 36 items prepared to cover all the four categories of emotional intelligence. The objective of this study was to examine importance given to emotional intelligence by school principal in primary school level in addition to other related questions refers to emotional intelligence. Survey method was applied to conduct the research, and descriptive and inferential statistical methods were applied to analyze the collected data. The finding of the research show that the emotional intelligence level of the primary school principals under this study was inconsistent, almost 60.27% of the principals rated their emotional intelligence higher and the rest 39.73 % rated their level of emotional intelligence was average and below the average. In addition the finding of this study show that there is a significant difference between males and females mean score of emotional intelligence scale of the principals ,and also significance difference between males and females mean scores of the four categories’ of emotional intelligence was observed while self-awareness and self-management were subsequently highly rated categories of emotional intelligence. A correlation analysis also indicates that the emotional intelligence ratings of the principals were not significantly differ by age, years of experience and educational status even if positive relationship was observed between examined variables.
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Status of Emotional Intelligence