Relationships between leadership orientations and emotional intelligence in nursing students.

MINDFULNESS; MENTAL orientation; RESEARCH evaluation; LEADERSHIP; CROSS-sectional method; SELF-perception; REGRESSION analysis; NURSE-patient relationships; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; EMOTIONAL intelligence; NURSING students; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience

Purpose: To describe the relationship between leadership orientation and emotional intelligence levels of nursing students. Method: The study is a cross‐sectional and descriptive correlational study. Results: This study was carried out with 320 nursing students. There was a positive relationship between the mean scores for the Leadership Orientations subdimensions and the mean scores for the overall Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale and its subdimensions. Practice Implications: More studies are needed to examine the relationship between students' emotional intelligence and leadership orientations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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