TY - JOUR T1 - The Roles of Emotional Intelligence (EI) Towards Work Commitment and Satisfaction in Teaching Profession AU - Syed Salim, Syed Sofian AU - Mohd Jais, Samsiah AU - Mohamed Arip, Mohammad Aziz Shah AU - Mohd Adnan, Nor Haslin JO - The Social Sciences VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 294 EP - 297 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2015.294.297 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.294.297 KW - Emotional intelligence KW -work commitment KW -work satisfaction KW -teaching profession KW -Malayasia AB - This research aims to find out the roles of Emotional Intelligence (EI) towards work commitment and satisfaction in teaching profession. The research was carried out by means of a questionnaire survey. Samples of the research consist of 1,200 teachers from 60 schools. The Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) by Boyatzis, Goleman and HayMcBer was used to measure EI while Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) by Hackman and Oldman was used to measure work satisfaction as well as the work commitment questionnaire by Carson and Bedeian. The result based on Pearson correlation analysis shows that EI has positive and significant relationship with the work commitment and satisfaction variables. ER -