Emotional intelligence on stress management, job performance and social skills a case study at SM Sains Tuanku Jaafar, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan / Nabilah Ramlan, Nor Nasirah Norizam and Nurul Kamar Ainiah Hamidi

Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to sense and handle self and others' emotions and feelings. The five components of emotional intelligence are self¬ awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. This study is about determining the effect of emotional intelligence on stress management, job performance and social skills. This study was conducted as recently, there is a teacher who suffers from stress at the workplace. The number of sample taken was 52 teachers out of 60 teachers. Umar Sekaran's table was referred in determining the number of samples. The sampling method used was simple random sampling method. The data were collected using self-administered questionnaires then were analysed using descriptive analysis and ordinal regression. The items used were reliable. The results obtained show that age is the only variable that are affected by emotional intelligence.