Is there any relationship between emotional intelligence and general health? A cross sectional study in Zahedan 2016

Mahboobeh Doostkami, Maryam Sarbishegi

Anatomy Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.

ABSTRACT

Some professions have critical situations that may threaten their workers health. Emotional intelligence is a factor which can reduce the psychological pressures. So this study aimed to investigate that is there any relationship between emotional intelligence and general health? This cross sectional study was conducted on 45 operating room staff in Ali-ebne-Abitaleb hospital of Zahedan. A three part questionnaire was used for data collection in this study. First part collected demographic information the second part was The Bradbury-Graves emotional intelligence questionnaire. The third part was GHQ-28 (General Health Questionnaire) standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed through SPSS v.19 by descriptive statistics, Pearsons correlation and T test.The mean of age was 29.93 ± 5.22. 35 females and 10 males took part in this study which 32 of them were married and 13 were single. The mean score of emotional intelligence was 108.11 ± 12.23 that means a good emotional intelligence. The mean score of general health was 75.00 ± 8.91. There wasn’t any significant relationship between emotional intelligence and general health (p=0.005).The results of this study didn’t show a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and general health but most of respondents who had a good emotional intelligence had a high general health score. Due to this it seems necessary to improve the emotional intelligence for improving the general health.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, General health, Operating room