The Ascendency of Emotional Intelligence on Academic Teaching Staff Stress with the Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

Abstract

According to the Workplace Health Reports 2023, around 76% of employees worldwide have experienced moderate-to-high stress levels. Around 26% of Indians are stressed due to their current work environment with long working hours, lack of job security, low wages, and growing competition. It is often believed that teaching is an extremely difficult job, in particular, academic staff experience a lot of stress due to several stressors. Emotional intelligence is a set of non-cognitive abilities, to effectively handle environmental demands and stresses. The current investigation seeks to project the effect of psychological capital as a mediator linking emotional intelligence (EI) and occupational stress to academic teaching faculties in Chennai City.

Keywords

• occupational stress
• emotional intelligence
• academic teaching faculties
• psychological capital
• partial least square structural equation modelling
• m12
• o15