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.