Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Learning Styles of Students

Present research has analyzed the relationship between students learning styles and their emotional intelligence. The research was descriptive of correlation type. Research population was consisted of all students of Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, in three groups of Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees.320were chosen by using random sampling method and the sample size formula. To collect data, two questionnaires; Kolb learning style and bar–on have been used. Also content and face validity of questionnaires were confirmed by several psychology and educational sciences experts. The reliability of both questionnaires was estimated by using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (?) which equals to0.91in emotional intelligence and 0.97in learning styles. Analysis of the data is done by using inferential statistics (including percentile, mean and standard deviation in descriptive and independent, Pearson correlation coefficient, one-way variance analysis and Tucky test).The result has shown that among 15 emotional intelligence components (emotional self-awareness,courage,selfesteem,self-actualization,independence,interpersonal relationships, liability, empathy, test of reality, problem solving, and flexibility, tolerance of psychological strains, impulse control, happiness and optimism) there are only relationships between interpersonal relationships, impulse control and learning style. And no relationships between other components of emotional intelligence and learning styles of divergent, convergent and assimilative were found.