The Effects of Relationship Management, Self-Management and Social Awareness Sub-Scales on Transformational Leadership Behavior Among Educational Leaders

The study aims to examine the effect of the emotional intelligence sub-scales; namely relationship management, self management, self awareness and social awareness on transformational leadership behavior among educator leaders in primary school. In this study, two sets of questionnaires were used i.e. the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ5x) by Bass Avolio (2000) to assess leadership behavior, while Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) by Boyatzis (2001 )was used to assess emotional intelligence. The findings showed that a majority of respondents experienced high levels of overall emotional intelligence 78.8%. The results also indicated that overall sub-scales of emotional intelligence factors explain 54.9 % of the variance (R Square) in transformational leadership which is significant (Beta = .174, t = 2.268, k 0.05). As for each sub-scale of emotional intelligence (relationship management, self management and social awareness), results of multiple-regression analysis showed that three predictor variables for each criterion were found: revealing how relationship management contributes a significant predictor in explaining 51.6% of the variance (R Square); (Beta = .388, t = 4.738, k 0.05); self management explains 54.1% of the variance (Beta = .225, t = 3.285, k 0.05), and social awareness explains 54.9% (Beta = .174, t = 2.268, k 0.05) in producing transformational leadership behavior. This article concludes therefore that the assessment of psychological constructs in school settings, such as training programs and EI Modules, could possibly assist in enhancing leadership behavior and providing benefits to society, especially in educational contexts.