Emotional Intelligence as Predictor of Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Welding and Fabrication Teachers in Technical Colleges in North Central, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate emotional intelligence as predictor of commitment and job satisfaction among welding and fabrication teachers in technical colleges in North Central, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study while one hypothesis formulated was tested at 0.05 level of significance. This study adopted correlation design. The study area comprised of six states and Federal capital territory of North-central states, Nigeria. The population for this study comprised of 177 Welding and Fabrication Teachers in Government Technical Colleges offering welding and Fabrication engineering craft practice. There was no sampling because the entire population was manageable. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument for this study was face validated by three experts in the Department of Industrial Technical Education. The Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument, and 0.84 reliability coefficient value was obtained which indicated that the instrument was reliable. The copies of the instrument were administered with the help of three research assistants. The two research questions were answered using Pearson product moment correlation method. The findings show that a positive relationship existed between emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and commitment of teachers in technical Colleges. The finding on hypothesis revealed that emotional intelligence did not significantly predicted job satisfaction of among welding and fabrication technical college teachers in North Central, Nigeria. The study recommended that: (i) Government and technical college administrators should employ trainers to organize seminar and workshop for welding and fabrication technical College teachers in order to improve their commitment and job satisfaction (ii) ministry of education should send welding and fabrication teachers for in-service training in order to develop their teaching skills.