ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN EMPLOYESS GENERAL HEALTH

 ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN EMPLOYESS GENERAL HEALTH

The aim of the present study was to examine the role of emotional intelligence on employees’ general health. More specifically, the study aimed to highlight the relationship between general health and emotional intelligence (Self-Emotion Appraisal, Others’ Emotion Appraisal, and Use of emotion) of knowledge based organization Employees. The sample consisted of 138 employees working in the knowledge based organizations in Gurgaon. The mean age of the employees was 44.94 years, and 31.88 %of employees were B.E. /B. Tech, 5.79 % were B.C.A., 44.79% were M. Tech and 17.39% of employee were having M.C.A. degrees . The Emotional Intelligence Scale (12 items) (Wong and Law, 2002) measuring Self-Emotion Appraisal, Others’ Emotion Appraisal and Use of emotion, and 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12; Goldberg, 1972; Goldberg& Hillier, 1979)were administered on the participants. Results of correlations and regression analyses demonstrated that there is a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and general health of the employees and emotional health predicted general health.