Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Styles of Head Nurses at Governmental Hospitals in Port-Said | ||||
| Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 2016, Page 80-101 PDF (412.9 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/pssjn.2016.32508 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Abeer Wassif Shenouda* 1; Samia Mohammed Adam2; Fathya Abd ELRazek Afify3 | ||||
| 1B.Sc Nursing Suez Canal University | ||||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University | ||||
| 3Lecturer of Nursing Administration Faculty of Nursing Port Said University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Emotional intelligence (EI) has become a global phenomenon due to its far reaching implications for individuals, groups, society as a whole and it is critical to becoming a successful leader. In addition to effective leadership plays an important role in the growth and better performance of the organization. The aim: of the present study was to assess the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles of the head nurses at governmental hospitals in Port-Said. The research design: was a correlational descriptive design. The subjects of this study consisted of two groups; Head nurses group (31) and staff nurses group (216), two tools were used for data collection as the followings: emotional intelligence questionnaire which used to assess emotional intelligence level of head nurses and leadership styles questionnaire which used to assess leadership styles used by head nurses from staff nurse‘s point of view. The results: revealed that self-awareness of head nurses scores reported the highest mean percentage compared to self-regulation in personal competence whereas social skills scored the highest mean percentage in social competence and all competence of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership scored the highest mean percentage than transactional leadership in advanced styles and all styles from staff nurse‘s point of view. The study concluded: that there was no statistically significant correlation between emotional intelligence and leadership styles. However, two skills of transformational styles inspirational motivation and individual consideration had a negative statistically significant correlation with social competence of EI, in addition to, personal competence and total EI was founded for inspirational motivation only. The study recommended: that there are an obvious needs for educate the new head nurses about emotional intelligence competence and how to improve their emotional intelligence orientation with leadership styles by their organization | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| emotional intelligence; Leadership styles; Head Nurses | ||||
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