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Cognitive Study
| Published: September 18, 2020
A study on relationship between personality and emotional intelligence of creative writers
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Education (University of Kashmir), Kashmir, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Dept. of Education, (University of Kashmir), Kashmir, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.099/20200803
DOI: 10.25215/0803.099
ABSTRACT
The study was undertaken to study the relationship between the factors of personality and Emotional Intelligence of Creative writers of Jammu & Kashmir. The sample of the study comprised of 80 creative writers (Sahitya Akademi Award nominees and Selectees). Big Five Personality inventory by McCrae and Costa (1992) (to measure personality) and Emotional Intelligence Scale (2011) by Hyde, Pathe and Dhar were the tools used for the collection of Data. Correlation was computed by employing Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation on Personality and Emotional Intelligence of Creative writers (N=80) at dimension level. The study revealed that significant Negative relationship existed between the factors of Personality: Extraversion and factors C (Self-motivation) and H (Value Orientation); (O)Openness to Experience and factor E (Managing relations) of Emotional Intelligence. However no significant relationship was found between the rest of the factors.
Keywords
Creative Writers, Personality, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Conscientiousness Agreeableness, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Stability, Managing relations, Integrity, Commitment, Self-motivation
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Rather M.A. & Khan M. A.
Received: August 01, 2020; Revision Received: September 10, 2020; Accepted: September 18, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.099/20200803
10.25215/0803.099
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020