Revista Europea de Biología Experimental Acceso abierto

Abstracto

An investigation of the relationship between emotional intelligence and attachment in employees' Payame Noor University

Amir Hemmati, Akbar Jesarati, Rasool Saeedi and Shahram Abdollahian

The main purpose of this study was the relation between Emotional intelligence and Attachment. For this reason, 116 employees (48 male , 68 females) were chosen random stratified and their data were gathered by Schutte emotional intelligence scale and The RSQ(Griffin and Bartholomew,1994, determine the attachment styles). After that,to analyze the data, Pearson correlation, regression analyzes was used. Result showed that Higher scores obtained from sub-scales of the relationships scales Questionnaire represent higher level of secure, fearful, dismissing and preoccupied attachment. The secure attachment styles are positively related to the intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, adaptability, strees management and general mood emotional intelligence. The dismissing attachment styles are negatively related to interpersonal intelligence emotional intelligence. The fearful attachment style are negatively related to intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, adaptability, strees management and general mood emotional intelligence. The preoccupied attachment styles are positively related to the interpersonal emotional intelligence, but negatively related to adaptability emotional intelligence. Fearful, dismissing, secure and preoccupied attachment styles combined have a significant on intrapersonal emotional intelligence and accouted for 11.9% of the intrapersonal emotional intelligence variance. Attachment styles have a significant effect on interpersonal emotional intelligence and account for 11.3% of the interpersonal emotional intelligence variance. Ferful, dismissing and preoccupied attachment styles combined have a significant effect on adaptability emotional intelligence. The attachment styles account for 7.3% of the adaptability emotional intelligence variance. The attachment styles have a significant effect on stress management emotional intelligence and account for 7.3% the stress management emotional intelligence variance. The attachment styles have a significant effect on general mood emotional intelligence and account for 6% the general mood emotional intelligence variance.