Rehana Noor, Tanzeela Nabeel, Naveed Shahzad.
The Impact of Gender on Emotional Intelligence and Burnout among Special Education Teachers.
Int J Rehab Sci Jan ;05(01):33-6.

Objectives: the study aimed to investigate the impact of gender between emotional intelligence (EI) and burnout among special education teachers in services for children with disabilities. Method and Measures: the study consisted on sample of 150 special education teachers (n= 50 male, n= 100 female) from government special education institutions of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore. Purposive sampling technique was employed based on cross-sectional design. Two questionnaires were used to measure Emotional Intelligence (Kiani, 2003) and Burnout (Maslach & Jackson, 1981). Results: the results of this study revealed that EI was significant negatively associated with burnout along its subscales emotional exhaustion, depersonalization respectively(r = -.636**, r = -.573**). However, EI was also significant positively associated with personal accomplishment(r = .554**). the results further discovered the moderating role of the gender (b= 40.89, p =.05) between emotional intelligence and emotional exhaustion subscale of burnout. Female special education teachers are more predisposed to emotional exhaustion and less emotional intelligence as compare to Male special education teachers. This study is suggested that it would be more beneficial for female special education teachers than male. Conclusion: This study would be helpful for both pedagogical and clinical settings. It would be effective if female special education teachers develop problem solving groups among themselves as a measure to reduce emotional exhaustion.

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