THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOB SATISFACTION ON MEN AND WOMAN WORKING FOR IRAN MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITIES

job satisfaction assessment and development should be considered from different
dimensions. Emotional intelligence is one of the ways of job satisfaction assessment and evaluation.
The aim of this paper is to identify the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction
on men and women working for Iran medical sciences universities.
Methodology: This is an applicable investigation based on sectional- analytic method. Sample used in
this investigation was selected from men and women working for some of medical sciences
universities of Iran. Emotional intelligence questionnaire designed and created by syber Yashring and
job satisfaction questionnaire designed and created by herz burge were used in this investigation after
they were approved being suitable for data collection. 982 participants were selected from Urmia,
Boushehr, Zabol, Qazvin, Golestan and mashhad medical sciences universities. The findings were
analyzed by inferential statistic using SPSS software.
Findings: There is a relation between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction on working women
and men. The much more emotional intelligence the higher job satisfaction and vice versa. There is a
relation between job satisfaction and each one of emotional intelligence elements i.e. self- knowledge,
self- control, social conscience, social shills and self- motivation on working men and woman. The
findings show that there is a positive relationship between job satisfaction and each one of five
emotional intelligence elements and factors from the respondents point of view after all selfknowledge, self- control, social conscience and self- motivation are related to sex in means that there
is a relationship between job sat is faction, self- knowledge, self- control and social conscience as far
working women as are can corned. While there is a relation between jobs sat is faction and selfmaturation for working man. On the other hand social skills are related to both sexes. In the fields if
job satisfaction.
Conclusion: The higher emotional intelligence the much more job satisfaction.