Making EFL students’ aware of the underlying psychological traits: bounds between personality factors and emotional intelligence
Making EFL students’ aware of the underlying psychological traits: bounds between personality factors and emotional intelligence

Summary/Abstract: This study investigated the relationship among EFL learners’ personality characteristics and competencies of emotional intelligence (EI). A group of 210 EFL students, studying at Islamic Azad University, at CentralTehran, Iran, were randomly selected and given NEO-Five Factor Inventory and Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory questionnaires. Running Pearson correlation indicated that four of the components of BFPT –except for openness to experience– show significant correlations with EI. As for subscales of EI,neuroticism showed significant correlations with all of the subscales of EI, except for interpersonal.Extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness showed significant but negative correlations with subscales of EI and, openness to experience showed non-significant correlations with components of EI.Furthermore, results of multiple regressions revealed that neuroticism predicted 40 percent of EI,conscientiousness enhanced prediction to 48 percent, extroversion leveled prediction to 50 percent, and openness to experience increased the prediction to 51.8 percent. It can be concluded that five factor model of personality had strong influence on EI of EFL learners.

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