Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Classroom Culture of Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

The primary purpose behind conducting this study was to explore the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and classroom culture of Secondary School Teachers. The quanative survey method was used to explore the factors of variable. The population of study was all male and female teachers of tehsil Lahore city, district Lahore of public secondary schools of Punjab Province in Pakistan. Random sampling technique was used. The sample of the study was consists of 100 teachers. One adopted instruments on 5-point Likert type scale for emotional intelligence and one was developed by researcher herself for classroom culture were used for data collection. After taking the permission by author the researcher  adopt a scale based on emotional intelligence developed by Schtte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test 1998 (SSEIT)  and one was developed by researcher herself for classroom culture were used for data collection. After validation of the instrument, the reliability was measured by calculating Cronbach's alpha .919 and .87. Collected data were analyzed by using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. at .05 level of significance. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) were used for analysis. The study recommended that teachers should pay attention to share the emotions with students in an appropriate way.