Abstract

DE LA VILLA MORAL JIMENEZ, María  and  GANZO SALAMANCA, Sergio. Influence of emotional intelligence in job satisfaction in Spanish workers. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2018, vol.35, n.1, pp.18-32. ISSN 0123-417X.

Emotional intelligence has a great impact on personal and professional level. Labor sphere represents a fundamental part in the lives of people, being job satisfaction one of the indicators of success at work, hence the objective proposed was to test the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. This study included 214 participants aged 18 to 65 (mean = 39.69, SD = 12,967; 56.25% female, 43.75% male) from different professional fields -socio sanitary, educational, services and manipulative- and with different levels of experience. The main finding is that it has been confirmed that the scope of professional dedication has implications both at the level of emotional intelligence of employees, and satisfaction with work. Other variables, such as years of work experience do not appear to influence, at least for themselves, in the job satisfaction perceived by workers, although it was found that the professional field is a mediating variable in the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction.

Keywords : Emotional intelligence; job satisfaction; job field; professional experience..

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