Emotional Intelligence of Teachers working in B.Ed. Colleges of Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh State

Emotions are personal experiences that arise from complex interplay among physiological, cognitive and situational variables. Emotions if properly used are an essential tool for successful and fulfilling life. Emotional intelligence is a kind of intelligence or skill that involves the ability to perceive, assess and positively influence one’s own and other people’s emotions. Emotional intelligence is the set of abilities that accounts for how people emotional reports vary in the emotional intelligence accuracy and how the more accurate understanding of emotions leads to better problem solving in an individual’s. An attempt is made in this paper to know the level of emotional intelligence of teachers working in B.Ed. colleges of Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh State in relation to their gender and educational qualification variations. A tool was developed for assessing emotional intelligence of 332 teachers working in B.Ed. colleges of Rayalaseema Region. The result showed that more than 83% of the teachers working in B.Ed. colleges possess moderate and low levels of emotional intelligence. Empirical shows a study on emotional intelligence of secondary teacher trainees. The main focus of the study was to understand the influence of type of institutions and type of family on the emotional intelligence of teacher trainees. The data was collected using descriptive survey method. 502 teacher trainees who were studying in five different colleges of education in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu were selected as sample for the study. It was discovered through the study that the sample respondents possessed average emotional intelligence and there was hardly any difference in the emotional intelligence of teacher trainees depending on the type of institution or the type of family that they hailed from. Nagpal (2009) studied the emotional intelligence and self-concept among prospective teachers. The main focus of the study was to understand what kind of relationship existed between the emotional intelligence and self-concept of the prospective teachers. 120 prospective teachers who were studying in different education colleges in Rohtak city were taken as sample respondents for this study. The findings also revealed that there exist a significant difference between the self-concept of male teachers on one side and the self-concept of female teachers on the other. Panda (2009) carried out a study on emotional intelligence and the personality traits of pupil-teachers. The sample for the study was 130 pupil-teachers who were studying in the Kurukshetra University college of education in the city of Ambala. The study brought to light the fact that there existed a significant positive correlation between the emotional intelligence and the normal behaviour of pupil-teachers. However, no significant difference was discovered between the female pupils and the male pupils in their emotional intelligence. Umadevi made a study to understand the relationship between emotional intelligence, achievement motivation and academic achievement of primary school student teachers of the Davangare district of Karnataka state. It was revealed in the findings that there existed a positive relationship between emotional intelligence on one hand and the academic achievement. Upadhyaya conducted a study to understand the emotional intelligence of student teachers.