Emotional intelligence with the gender perspective in health organizations managers

Fotis Kitsios; Eumorfia Papageorgiou; Maria Kamariotou; Nikolaos A Perifanis; Michael A Talias

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11488

Emotional intelligence with the gender perspective in health organizations managers

Heliyon. 2022 Nov 15;8(11):e11488. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11488. eCollection 2022 Nov.

Authors

Fotis Kitsios¹, Eumorfia Papageorgiou², Maria Kamariotou¹, Nikolaos A Perifanis¹, Michael A Talias²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece.
² Faculty of Economics and Management, Open University Cyprus, P.O. Box 12794, Nicosia, 2252, Cyprus.

Abstract

Emotional intelligence (EI) is considered as a necessary qualification for Health Service executives in order to emotionally understand the human resources they manage and how to best handle people, situations and infrastructures. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the EI levels of healthcare executives (senior, middle and junior executives), in the field of health, in relation to sex. An EI Scale Assessment Questionnaire was used, which explores aspects of EI, such as estimating, expressing, regulating and using EI in problem solving. The sample consisted of 161 participants and data analysis was implemented based on criterion x ². The data analysis showed that health care managers express a high level of emotional perception, and management- evaluation of their own and other emotions. In addition, results in relation to sex revealed that women express higher EI than men and also express higher management-evaluation of self-esteem than men.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence; Health managers; Sex; Workforce.