The relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress among trainee nurses in Kolej Sains Kesihatan Bersekutu Kuching / Carppriaty Christy David and Claudya Matthew

Nursing is a very stressful profession because the job is focus on patients’ well-being. It is believed that emotional intelligence protects a person from stress and help to cope with stress in nursing profession. The purposes of this research were to examine how the concept of emotional intelligence works on job stress and to conduct the study of relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress among trainee nurses. A total of 240 trainee nurses were chosen randomly as respondents. This present study has identified there was negative relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress among trainee nurses. There were other tests that had been analyzed where it shows trainee nurses perceived low level of job stress and there was high emotional intelligence on self-management possessed by trainee. In addition, there was test conducted between age and self-awareness, however, the age does not show any difference on self-awareness. Last but not least, the four dimensions of emotional intelligence are not the significant predictor on job stress.