محمدکاظم بیغمی

This paper examines the relations among emotional intelligence, work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior of nurses and the mediating effect of work-family conflict between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses. a questionnaire survey was carried out to explore the relations among emotional intelligence, work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior. a 51-item questionnaire which consist of emotional intelligence, work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior parts was carried out to investigate the relations among these variables. Some basic socio-demographic questions were included. The study resulted emotional intelligence was significantly and negatively related to work-family conflict(r=-0.26, p ≤ 0.01) and significantly and positively related to organizational citizenship behavior(r=0.62, p ≤ 0.01). The negative relation between work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior was also significant(r=-0.27, p ≤ 0.01). it was found that work-family conflict is a partial mediator between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. The other finding of the study was that emotional intelligence, work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behaviors and some of their dimensions are significantly related to each other.

Purpose - The study tested the extent to which the emotional intelligence (EI), job satisfaction (JS) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and their dimensions are related. Alsoit was tested that whether job satisfaction mediates personality effects (Emotional Intelligence) on organizational citizenship behavior. method - A questionnaire survey was carried out to explore these relations at the Islamic Azad University of Tehran, South Branch. Participants were 187 employees who completed the Wong Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Blazer Job Satisfaction Scale and Podsakoff Organizational citizenship behavior Scale. Some basic socio-demographic questions were included too. Finding - Results indicated that emotional intelligence affects both job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior; and job satisfaction affects organizational citizenship behavior significantly. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), it was cleared that job satisfaction mediates the effects of emotional intelligence on organizational citizenship behavior partially. Among the four EI dimensions, ""self-emotional aPPraisal"", ""other’s emotional aPPraisal"" and ""use of emotion"" were significant independent predictors of job satisfaction and all the four EI dimensions were significant independent predictors of OCB. Originality/value - The relations among emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior have been analyzed simultaneously. Job satisfaction was found to be a mediator between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. Emotional intelligence dimensions have significant relation with some aspects of job satisfaction and some dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior.