Emotional intelligence and its impacts on the clinical performance of nurses in general public hospitals

Control variables	Interpersonal communication		Problem solving		Teamwork		Stress score

	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Appraisal of own emotions	−0.263	<0.001	−0.241	0.001
Regulation of others’ emotions	−0.591	<0.001			−0.527	<0.001
Utilization of emotions			−0.358	<0.001			0.368	<0.001

Emotional intelligence and perceived stress	Statistics

	M	SD
Emotional intelligence, mean (SD)	2.56	0.39
Appraisal of own emotions	1.95	0.71
Appraisal of others’ emotions	3.20	0.74
Regulation of own emotions	2.33	0.75
Regulation of others’ emotions	2.59	0.82
Utilization of emotions	2.72	0.94
Perceived stress no (%)
Low stress	29	14.9
Moderate stress	151	77.8
High stress	14	7.2
Clinical nurse performance, Mean (SD)	3.42	0.42
Contextual	3.71	0.54
Professional skill	1.57	0.23
Clinical skill	1.98	0.33
Interpersonal communication	3.65	1.28
Problem solving	4.06	1.11
Professional ethics	4.10	0.84
Teamwork	3.91	1.30
Leadership	3.76	0.82

Clinical performance	n	Mean	Standard deviation	P-value
Teamwork score
Education				<0.001
Institute	121	3.61	1.25
Bachelor	73	4.43	1.23
Professional ethics
Smoking				0.013
Yes	27	3.73	0.85
No	167	4.16	0.83

Factors	Dependent variables: Dimensions of clinical performance

	Dependent variable	Mean square	F score	P-value	Partial eta squared
Education	Teamwork	9.367	7.739	0.006	0.042
Smoking	Professional ethics	4.254	5.872	0.016	0.032
Appraisal of own emotions
	Interpersonal communication	6.162	5.787	0.017	0.032
	Problem solving	3.522	7.642	0.006	0.041
Appraisal of others’ emotions	No factor
Regulation of own emotions	No factor
Regulation of others’ emotions
	Interpersonal communication	50.812	47.725	0.000	0.212
	Teamwork	60.925	50.336	0.000	0.221
Utilization of emotions	Problem solving	4.569	9.914	0.002	0.053
Stress score	Problem solving	9.868	21.413	0.000	0.108