Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi

Communication is recognized as one of the important criteria in employment whereby, employers tend to look at the job candidates’ abilities in expressing themselves through their communication skills. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the moderating effects of personality traits t...

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Main Author: Sumardi, Nur Athirah
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Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82112/1/82112.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.821122023-11-24T03:13:27Z Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi 2018 Sumardi, Nur Athirah Communication is recognized as one of the important criteria in employment whereby, employers tend to look at the job candidates’ abilities in expressing themselves through their communication skills. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the moderating effects of personality traits towards the relationship between emotional intelligence and communication competence among final year undergraduate students in four public universities in Klang Valley. The four universities involved in this study were UM, UKM, UPM and UiTM. A correlational study design was applied for this study and data were collected by using quota sampling. Data were obtained through a set of questionnaires comprised of four sections. A pilot study was done prior to the actual data collection process, validating the instruments used. Exploratory Factor Analysis was conducted to establish the components under investigation. Besides, the researcher used descriptive, correlational, multiple regression, hierarchical regression analysis to analyze the data obtained. The findings of this study revealed that there was a relationship between emotional intelligence and communication competence among the final year students. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82112/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82112/1/82112.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Business and Management Hassan, Narehan
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description Communication is recognized as one of the important criteria in employment whereby, employers tend to look at the job candidates’ abilities in expressing themselves through their communication skills. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the moderating effects of personality traits towards the relationship between emotional intelligence and communication competence among final year undergraduate students in four public universities in Klang Valley. The four universities involved in this study were UM, UKM, UPM and UiTM. A correlational study design was applied for this study and data were collected by using quota sampling. Data were obtained through a set of questionnaires comprised of four sections. A pilot study was done prior to the actual data collection process, validating the instruments used. Exploratory Factor Analysis was conducted to establish the components under investigation. Besides, the researcher used descriptive, correlational, multiple regression, hierarchical regression analysis to analyze the data obtained. The findings of this study revealed that there was a relationship between emotional intelligence and communication competence among the final year students.
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author Sumardi, Nur Athirah
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Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
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title Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
title_short Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
title_full Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
title_fullStr Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
title_full_unstemmed Emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / Nur Athirah Sumardi
title_sort emotional intelligence and communication competence: the moderating roles of personality traits / nur athirah sumardi
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