Emotional intelligence and job stress of Andimeshk city staff and health care staff

Objectives: Stress is a common disease of the 21st century and one of the major causes of stress in life is job stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the situation of job stress and emotional intelligence and their relationship in Andimeshk urban health workers. Methods: A total of 143 health workers working in the headquarters of Andimeshk Comprehensive Health Center and Health Centers were evaluated through standard HSE and Bradbery questionnaires. The relationship between these two variables was investigated using multivariate regression and adjusted for confounders such as age, gender and workplace. Results: The majority of female participants (82%) and in formal employment, over 70% of employees had a bachelorchr(chr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))39chr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))))s degree and more than 60% had at least 6 years of work experience. 63% of employees with moderate emotional intelligence and up to 86% suffered from mild to severe job stress. One-way analysis of variance test showed that there is a significant difference between job stress with place of work and gender as well as emotional intelligence with place of work and gender. Job stress was significantly inversely related to emotional intelligence (r = -0.42). Conclusion: Health workers with higher emotional intelligence had less job stress. It is recommended that emotional intelligence training be included in the annual retraining of personnel and an intervention study of emotional intelligence training be conducted on job stressors.