THEPREDICTIVEPOWEROFEMOTIONALINTELLIGENCEON SELF EFFICACY: A CASE OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the Emotional Intelligence(EI) and its relationship to self-efficacy among school principals. The study was conducted to determine whether schoolprincipalsdevelop their EI,and whether EI would increase their levels of self-efficacy. The participants of the study were composed of 50 school principals.Theparticipants were selected randomly.Inthestudyamultidimensionalinstrumentfor school principals’ emotional intelligence competence scale (EIC) was developed and validated. Therefore, the present study used anexploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to establish the construct validity of the EIC model. The data were based on quantitative data.For the data analysis Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, Simple Linear Regression and a series of Mann Whitney-U test were conducted (ANOVA non-parametric test) were utilized. The results revealed that there was a positive significant correlation between perceived EI and self-efficacy (r = 53).Thus, it can be stated that EI competence of schoolprincipalspredictsstrongpoweron theirselfefficacyperceptionsofthem.Meanwhile, the study showed that school principals' EI competence and self-efficacy perceptions were high. The results also showed thatthe perceptionsof femaleson self efficacy werehigher than males.