Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Leader Performance.

摘要

This study reflects a comparison of the measured emotional intelligence ability to the evaluated leadership performance of 104 select male and female U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen. Binary logistical regressions were used to analyze the impact of selected explanatory variables on the probability of an individual performing effectively as a squad leader. Separate leader performance models were estimated on the numbers of the sample, and some significant relationships between the EIQ scores and leadership performance were found. The results of this research assessed the utility of the Mayer, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, Version 2 (MSCEIT v.2) to discriminate between effective leaders as inconclusive, while some scores from the MSCEIT v.2 were found to add to the predictive validity of each of the models. Conclusions and recommendations for further research are provided.