Emotional intelligence and its relationship to university integration among students of the Faculty of Education

Abstract

            This study investigates the level of emotional intelligence and university integration among university students (first year) at the Faculty of Education at Omar Al-Mukhtar University، to identify the relationship between the emotional intelligence and university integration and to find out the differences in the emotional intelligence among the learners based on the variables of gender (male - female) and specialization (science - humanity) during the academic year (2017 - 2018). The present study used a survey research design. The sample of the study was composed of (200) students from different majors at the Faculty of Education. Different instruments were used in this study: The criterion of (Bar – On، 1997) of emotional intelligence with its five dimensions :personal، intrapersonal، adaptation، stress management، and the general mood، and the criterion  of university integration، prepared by the (Alkady، 2012) was also used with its different fields: classmates، university courses، the programs and systems of the faculty، teachers، emotional area، and the majoring. After analyzing the results using the suitable statistical procedures (t – test and Pearson correlation: The study shows that university students had low levels of university integration and emotional intelligence. There was a strong positive correlation between emotional intelligence and university integration (r= 0.70) which means that the less the individual had skills of emotional intelligence، the less the ability he/she had to integrate into the university environment and vice versa. There were differences in some of the constructs of emotional intelligence between males and females based on the gender variable (p= 0.05) in which males performed well. Also، The study reached differences in the mean scores of the main constructs of emotional intelligence at the level of (0.05) based on the specialization variable (science - humanity).