Emotional inteligence and quality of life in special education teachers

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Sofia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Martins, Rosa, Martins, Maria da Conceição, Chaves, Cláudia, Duarte, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4450
• topic: Emotional intelligence; Quality of life; Special education teachers; Life satisfaction

Abstract: The main aim of this study is to evaluate the emotional intelligence of special education teachers, who work with handicapped children and teenagers in public elementary and secondary schools, so as to understand which variables can influence emotional intelligence of view of special education teachers. In our empirical research, we apply the "EQ-map" scale, which allowed us to evaluate the Emotional Quotient of a group of special education teachers specializing in mental and motor areas as well as visual and auditory disabilities. In this sense, our main results show that in our sample emotional intelligence is located mostly in vulnerability levels and need for attention, which varies inversely with Life occurrences and general health and positively with the Quality of Life and Satisfaction, Relationship Quotient and Optimal Performance. This is a descriptive epidemiological, cross-sectional and correlational study.