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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 1107-1118Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00160-9
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emotional intelligence; stress; occupational culture; police officers; social workers
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The concept of emotional intelligence was examined in relation to the latitude permitted for emotional expressiveness and adaptation to occupational culture in three groups of helping professionals: police officers, child care workers, and educators in mental health care, A total of 167 individuals were administered the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), There were no differences in the primary scales measuring various aspects of emotional intelligence between the two groups of care workers. There were differences between a combined care worker grouping and the police officers with the latter seeming more emotionally adaptable than the former, Whilst there were some overall gender differences, there were no Sender by occupation interactions, There were also differences in terms of three higher order factors of the EQ-i with police officers achieving higher scores on positive affect and emotional stability than the care workers, Results an discussed in the light of differences in occupational cultures and methodological considerations. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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