Interaction Effect of Multiple Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence on Professional Effectiveness of Teachers

The present normative survey was aimed to study the main effect and interaction effect of multiple intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence on professional effectiveness of secondary school teachers of Kerala. Standardised tools to measure the variables were administered on a sample of 618 secondary school teachers, selected on a stratified random basis, from four districts of Kerala. The data, thus collected, were subjected to statistical analysis(three-way ANOVA) by keeping the objectives and hypotheses in mind. The study revealed that multiple intelligence and social intelligence have significant main effect on professional effectiveness of teachers. The main effect of social intelligence on professional effectiveness is, however, not significant. Emotional intelligence have significant interaction effect with both multiple intelligence and social intelligence on professional effectiveness of teachers. The interaction effect of social intelligence and multiple intelligence on professional effectiveness is, however, not significant. The interaction of the three independent variables on the dependent variable is significant.