the relationship of psychological hardiness with emotional intelligence and workaholism

objective: present research intends to investigate relationship of psychological hardiness with emotional intelligence and workaholism among high school teachers. methods: the study population includes all male and female high school teachers in ghorveh city in the academic year 2012-2013. using simple random sampling method, 100 male and female teachers were selected. to collect data, kobasa psychological hardiness questionnaire, bar-on measure and aghabeigi workaholics questionnaire were employed. to analyze the data, descriptive statistics regression analysis were used. results: the findings indicated that there was negative significant relationship between the psychological hardiness and workaholism. the psychological hardiness and emotional intelligence had significant positive relationship. in addition, there was a significant negative relationship between emotional intelligence and workaholism. conclusion: the psychological hardiness, workaholism and emotional intelligence are interrelated variables without any significant difference between males and females.