The relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress

ABSTRACT: The concept of emotional intelligence is not new. but also the use of the term in itself is new; Aristotle is perhaps the first to be considered the importance of emotions in human interactions. Aristotle says, is easy to get angry, be angry at anyone, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, the right way is not easy to correct (Golman, 2002).In 1985, a PhD student at the University of Art in Americaʹs theses completed in the term emotional intelligence was used. It appears that the first use of the term emotional intelligence is academic (Hein, 2004).In psychology, stress is defined by means of compression. Rice quoted Hans Selye, considered the stress as the bodyʹs non-specific response to any request and knows the balance of non-specific responses and physiological adaptation (18).Stress also has a significant negative relationship withjobsatisfactionSo that increased stress, satisfaction levels and subsequent mental health personnel are reduced (1).The aim of this research examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress in office workers and youth is sport. statistical population 220 people, including all staff. Sample of 144 persons (84 females and 60 males) that were selected randomly from among the employees. Data collected for the study, two questionnaires (EI shering the reliability of the 0/85 and the job stress Moghimi with 0/81 reliability was used.In order to organize and describe the raw scores, methods of descriptive statistics such as (tables, frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, etc.) are utilized. In inferential statistical, Kolmograf Smirnof test (KS) was used to determine normality of the data and all analyzes were performed using SPSS software.Find of this study showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress. Among the components of emotional intelligence, there is a significant relationship between self-awareness and stress. There is a significant relationship between empathy and stress. There is significant relationship between social skills and job stress. There is no significant relationship between self-control with job stress. There is no significant relationship between motivation and job stress.