Social desirability and its relationship to emotional intelligence among students of the Faculty of Education - Minia University

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Faculty of education

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The current research aimed to investigate the relationship between social desirability and emotional intelligence. The sample of the research consisted of 755 students of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, grades of the faculty of education Minia university. The balanced inventory of desirable responding (Paulhus, 1991) translated by the researcher and emotional intelligence scale (Hussein& Abd El-Hamid, 2013) were used. The results of the research revealed the following: the participants showed a lower average of social desirability than the hypothetical mean, while they showed higher average of emotional intelligence than the hypothetical mean, there was a significant correlation (0,01) between social desirability and emotional intelligence (r= 0,43). The results of the statistical analysis also showed that the dimensions of self-deception and impression management were significantly associated with all dimensions of emotional intelligence at the 0.01 level. The adaptive dimension was the most related dimension of emotional intelligence to self-deception, while the external factors dimension was the most related dimension of emotional intelligence to impression management.

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