• Dr. Arpana Patel
• Desai Tarjani

Emotional Intelligence can also called as Emotional Quotient. It is one of the burning subjects and matters among business man and HR specialists and now for education institutes. Emotional Intelligence came in the pictures since Daniel Goleman in 1995 published his popular book on Emotional Intelligence. Emotions have an impression on everything employee does. This emotions lead towards motivation and performance which can be higher or lower. Major four areas of emotional intelligence; Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness and Relationship Management. The present paper is a try to understand emotional intelligence level of teachers as well as significant difference in the level of emotional intelligence with gender, age and marital status. For this purpose data on emotional intelligence were collected from 50 teachers of Reliance School, Surat. Data collected through questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using frequency, Cross tabulations, Chi – square and Kruskal Wallis Test. Study found that respondent needs to work in their emotional intelligence areas as majority of teachers have medium level of emotional intelligence here one interesting fact found that female can manage their emotional intelligence better than male. Another result found by researcher that Teachers’ emotional intelligence differs across their gender but Teachers’ emotional intelligence does not differ across their marital status. Self-awareness specially strength and weakness, Emotional recognitions and management, how to deal with emotions and stay calm, how to manage emotions in problematic situations, understand problems of others and help them are areas where there is no significant difference between emotional intelligence among age of teachers.

Emotional Intelligence, School teachers, Gender, Marital Status, Age

"A STUDY ON AN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SURAT CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.767-773, April-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004100.pdf

"A STUDY ON AN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SURAT CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no. pp767-773, April-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004100.pdf