The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy based on Job Performance

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy based on job performance of Khoramshahr port personnel. All 340 personnel of the Khoramshhar port were considered as target population of the study. Simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The research studied consisted of 181 personnel using both Cokaran and Krejcie and Morgan table to determine sample size. To collect data the participants were asked to answer three different questionaire including Bradberry and Greaves Emotional Intelligence, Riggs and Knights’ Self- Efficacy as well as Paterson’s Job Performance Questionnaire forms. Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis and Analysis of variance were used to calculate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self- efficacy as and job performance as. SPSS was used to perform the data analysis and for hypothesis testing. The result indicated that there was no relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance of the khormashahr port personnel. However there was a positive relationship between self- efficacy and job performance among the personnel. In other words self- efficacy had an important role in job performance. The study further revealed that emotional intelligence plays an important role on self- efficacy variable so that they affect each other.