چکیده:
the current study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and transformational leadership (TL) of female coaches in Golestan province (Iran). A descriptivecorrelational research method is applied. Statistical population includes all female coaches in the province, from which a total of 313 subjects are randomly selected. The Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (Syber Yashring, 1986), Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 2000), and Demographic Questionnaire are used to collect data. The first two provide the reliability coefficients of 0.84 and 0.81, respectively. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K-S) test results a skewed (non-normal) distribution of the variables (p< 0.05). Descriptive (frequency, mean, and standard deviation), and inferential (spearman's rank correlation coefficient) statistics are calculated in the analysis of data. The results indicate that the mean scores on the EI and TL measures of the subjects are 119.43 and 2.72, respectively. It means that there is a significant positive relationship between these two components (r=0.173, p< 0.002). In other words, the female coaches with higher rate of EI have a more tendency to TL. Moreover, there are significant relationships between the EI subscales of self-awareness, self-motivating, and social skills with all subscales of TL (inspirational motivation, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration). On the other hand, the subscale of sympathy has significant relationships with just two TL sub scales (i.e. inspirational motivation and individual consideration), while having no relationships with idealized influence and intellectual stimulation. Furthermore, there is no significant relationship between the subscale of selfregulation and none of the TL subscales.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Daniel Goleman (1995) believes that emotional intelligence is a wide range of skills by which one can control consciously his/her mind by self-awareness, improve it through self-regulation, understand its influence via sympathy, and enhance one's own and other's spirit by managing relationships (Hebert.
Weinberger (2004) conducted a research on manufacturing managers and achieved no relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership.
Result Table 1 shows the mean scores for emotional intelligence and its subscales of self-awareness, self-regulation, self- motivating, sympathy, and social skills in the participations.
Scores for Emotional Intelligence and its Subscales (View the image of this page) Table 2 shows the mean scores for transformational leadership and its subscales of inspirational motivation, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration in the participations.
Correlation Matrix between EI Subscales and TL Subscales (View the image of this page) Discussion and Conclusion The research findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership behavior in female coaches.
He reported that principals may develop their skills for effective leadership as a result of knowing their own strengths and weaknesses regarding the emotional intelligence field, along with improving the transformational leadership behaviors, and that such positive correlation can be just accomplished in TL, while it may not be observed in other styles (Hebert.
However, the results obtained from the subscales of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership indicate a consistency between the research with Sayeed and Shanker (2009), and Gardner and Stough (2002) (Sayeed & Shanker.
In their research, Sullivan and Kent (2003) defined emotional intelligence as an important predictor for leadership style of sport coaches (Sullivan & Kent.