ijasos

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences

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OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research

EXTRAVERSION PERSONALITY AS A MODERATOR ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM OF EMPLOYEES

Johar

Siti Sarawati

04 22 2016

2 4 106 112 04 21 2016

2015

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences

Personality dimension has gained a place in the fundamental of psychological research. It was detected that, personality can give influence on the employee behaviour in the workplace. The theoretical solutions are simply not able to unlock the psychological issues because it is closely linked to affective, cognitive and human behaviour in the workplace. In this study, the issues in the workplace are referring to personality, emotional intelligence and self-esteem of employees. The specific purpose of this study was to test the effect of extraversion personality as a moderator towards the relationship of emotional intelligence and self-esteem of employees. A total of 196 civil servants in the Local Authority (LA) have been selected as respondents. Measurement tools that used is Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Form (EPQR-S), Emotional Intelligence Self-Description Inventory (EISDI), and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). The data was analysed by using the hierarchical regression analysis. The finding shows that the two hypotheses are accepted. From this analysis as well, there was a moderating effect of extraversion personality on the relationship between emotional intelligence (perception and appraisal of emotion, and understanding emotions) with self-esteem of employees. The most important finding shows that extraversion personality serves as moderator when the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem are enhanced if extraversion were on a high level. This is compared with the low levels of extraversion personality that causing on relationship of emotional intelligence with self-esteem becoming weaker.Keywords: Extraversion, personality, moderator, emotional intelligence, self-esteem;

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