Investigating the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Tendency Toward Organizational Citizenship Behavior Orientation

The aim of present study was to determine the relationship and proportional contortion between three domains of emotional intelligence (regulation, utilization, appraisal of emotion) in Zanjan physical education teachers for predicting organizational citizenship behavior orientation. Research method was a correlation type and statistical population consisted of all physical education teachers of Zanjan in 1388-89. According to the last static, population was 486 determined 215 sample using Morgan s table for doing research and selected considering the share of each category, so the sample method was stratified random sampling. The research instruments were Schutte et al. emotional intelligence questionnaire (1998), and Moghimi organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire (1998). After collecting data, in order to statistical analysis, descriptive and inferential methods, such as Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and stepwise regression coefficient (R) were used. Research findings showed that: 1- Pearson correlation coefficient showed a positive and significant relation at p< 0.01 between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior generally as well as three domains of emotional intelligence. 2- stepwise regression coefficient(R) showed, among the three dimensions of emotional intelligence (predictors variables), utilization of emotion variable 0.402, appraisal of emotion variable 0.218, and regulation of emotion variable 0.184, were as predictors of organizational citizenship behavior orientation among high school teachers of Zanjan. Regarding to the research findings, the more emotional intelligence they have, the more organizational citizenship behavior they will have.