Principals’ Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence: A Cross-Sectional Study of Takhar High Schools, Afghanistan

ABSTRACT

This study explored the relationship between principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ emotional intelligence. The authors collected data from 395 teachers at Takhar high schools and statistically analyzed them using SPSS. The study found that there was a statistically significant positive correlation between principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ emotional intelligence. It also revealed that there were statistically significant differences in teachers’ level of emotional intelligence by their demographic factors: gender, education, work experience, and school location. The finding of the study will lead to the improvement of policies to advance principals’ transformational leadership and teachers’ emotional intelligence.

Acknowledgments

This study was assisted by the Science Department of Takhar Education Directorate in collecting data.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical Committee Approval

This research has ethics committee approval from Takhar Education Department with 04/05/2021 date and 125 number.

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Funding

The authors have no funding to report.