Characteristics of the Highly Emotionally Intelligent Senior Secondary School Teachers in Relation to Their Satisfaction with Life and Selected Socio Educational Variables

Exploring Emotional Intelligence in Senior Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

School Teachers who mainly deal with the tender mind of the adolescent children, are of paramount significance for the success of the educational endeavors. They play the key role in the grooming of child’s overall development. The emotions emerging during the course of teaching learning process and their management is the wonderful ability that designs the total outcome of the entire educational system. Emotional Intelligence is the ability which allows one to think more creatively and to use emotions to solve problems. This research paper has been prepared by the investigator to identify the characteristics of highly emotionally intelligent senior secondary school teachers in relation to the satisfaction with life and selected socio-educational variables on the basis of the analysis of the relevant data collected by administering appropriate tools on a sample of 271 Senior Secondary School teachers of Govt. aided and Unaided private (Public) Senior Secondary Schools of administrative District Central and District East under the Directorate of Education, GNCT Delhi.