The Mediating Effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Relationship betweenTransformational Leadership and Job Satisfaction
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https://doi.org/10.54536/ajmri.v5i2.7109Keywords:
Educational Management, Emotional Intelligence, Job satisfaction, Mediating Effect, Transformational LeadershipAbstract
This investigation examined the role of emotional intelligence in mediating the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction among public school teachers in the Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Davao Occidental, Philippines. The findings indicate that emotional intelligence is a partial mediator of the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction. This indicates that emotional intelligence not only directly affects job satisfaction but also mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction. As such, it can be inferred that the emotional intelligence is influenced by transformational leadership and then job satisfaction. This confirms the hypothesis proposed in this work and validates its correctness. Findings reinforce authors’ arguments in the context of such work using a path analysis. It has found that emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction and not a straight forward model. Rather, transformational leadership has effects on emotional intelligence and the latter affects job satisfaction. Transformational leadership styles, on the other hand are negatively related to job satisfaction for teachers in public schools. Transformational leadership can lead to emotional intelligence (EI) and subsequently job satisfaction of public-school teachers while emotional intelligence can increase the overall job satisfaction level.
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