INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFL TEACHERS' EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) AND THEIR SELF-REGULATION

This paper investigated the relationship between teacher's Emotional intelligence (EQ) and their self-regulation. Eighty-one EFL teachers working in English teaching institutes in different cities of Tehran took part in the study. They were selected based on convenient sampling procedure. Bar-On's EQ questionnaire and a valid self-regulation questionnaire were distributed among the participants. Since the distributions of the data were normal, Pearson correlation test was used to test the hypothesis. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between these two variables. In addition, further analysis showed that there were significant correlations between EQ and self-regulation elements. Finally, it can be concluded that developing and investing on EFL teacher's selfregulation may in turn lead to increased teacher self-regulation.