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

Correlation of dimensions of emotional intelligence with clinical performance and stress_

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 in nurses (n = 194)_

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

Comparison of teamwork score between nurses with different educational levels and smoking status (n = 194)_

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

Role of emotional intelligence dimensions on the clinical performance of nurses (n = 194)_

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

General characteristics of nurses (n = 194)_

Characteristics	Statistics
	M	SD	n	%
Age (23–36 years)	29.44	4.01
Family size (2–12 no.)	6.81	3.08
Gender
Male			110	56.70
Female			84	43.30
Marital status
Single			91	46.90
Married			103	53.10
Residency
Urban			150	77.30
Rural			44	22.70
Smoking
Yes			27	13.90
No			167	86.10
Physically active			108	55.70
Regular			39	36.10
Irregular			69	63.90
Sleeping hours
<6 h			61	31.40
6–8 h			101	52.10
>8 h			32	16.50
Education
Institute			121	62.40
Bachelor			73	37.60