the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership of female coaches in golestan province

the current study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and transformational leadership (tl) of female coaches in golestan province (iran). a descriptivecorrelational research method is applied. statistical population includes all female coaches in the province, from which a total of 313 subjects are randomly selected. the emotional intelligence questionnaire (syber yashring, 1986), multifactor leadership questionnaire (bass and avolio, 2000), and demographic questionnaire are used to collect data. the first two provide the reliability coefficients of 0.84 and 0.81, respectively. the kolmogorov–smirnov (k-s) test results a skewed (non-normal) distribution of the variables (p< 0.05). descriptive (frequency, mean, and standard deviation), and inferential (spearman's rank correlation coefficient) statistics are calculated in the analysis of data. the results indicate that the mean scores on the ei and tl measures of the subjects are 119.43 and 2.72, respectively. it means that there is a significant positive relationship between these two components (r=0.173, p< 0.002). in other words, the female coaches with higher rate  of ei have a more tendency to tl. moreover, there are significant relationships between the ei subscales of self-awareness, self-motivating, and social skills with all subscales of tl (inspirational motivation, idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, and individual consideration). on the other hand, the subscale of sympathy has significant relationships with just two tl sub scales (i.e. inspirational motivation and individual consideration), while having no relationships with idealized influence and intellectual stimulation. furthermore, there is no significant relationship between the subscale of selfregulation and none of the tl subscales