THE ASCENDENCY OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON ACADEMIC TEACHING STAFF STRESS WITH THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL
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https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2024-0033Keywords:
Occupational stress, Emotional Intelligence, Academic teaching faculties, Psychological Capital, Partial Least Square Struc- tural Equation ModellingAbstract
Purpose: According to the Workplace Health Reports 2023, around
76% of employees worldwide have experienced moderate-to-high
stress levels. Around 26% of Indians are stressed due to their current
work environment with long working hours, lack of job security, low
wages, and growing competition. It is often believed that teaching is an
extremely difficult job, in particular, academic staff experience a lot of
stress due to several stressors. Emotional intelligence is a set of non-
cognitive abilities, to effectively handle environmental demands and
stresses. The current investigation seeks to project the effect of psy-
chological capital as a mediator linking emotional intelligence (EI) and
occupational stress to academic teaching faculties in Chennai City.
Research Methodology: The proposed study used a questionnaire pre-
pared, and distributed among college faculties of various levels of 325
respondents in Chennai city.
Findings: The research results indicate that while psychological capital
acts as a mediating factor in the association between EI and occupation-
al stress, EI itself has a favorable impact on both psychological capital
and occupational stress.
Research Limitations: We suggest delving further into this in sub-
sequent research to ascertain the degree to which the findings may be
generalized outside the study population. Secondly, we neglected to ex-
amine the influence of additional work-related stressors on the degree
of work-related stress.
Practical/Social Implications: The investigation’s implications can be
used by top management authorities of private colleges and universities
to concentrate on the enhancement of EI and how it reduces the work-
place stress of teaching faculties with the mediating variable as psy-
chological capital, which improves the productivity of the employees.
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