The intent of this paper is to examine perceived teachers’ demographic personality characteristics and emotional intelligence in secondary schools in North-central, Nigeria. A descriptive research design of correlational was adopted for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select four hundred and thirty three (433) senior secondary school teachers in the three selected states in the region. Two adapted instruments were used to elicit information from the respondents, namely: Teachers personality demographic characteristics and emotional intelligence. They were validated by two experts in psychometric through face and content validity. While test re-test reliability technique was used on teachers outside of the respondents involved in the main study and reliability coefficient of .68 and .71 were recorded respectively. Chi-square was used to test hypothesis one while spearman`s rho correlation test was used to test hypotheses two and three and point Biserial correlation was used to test hypothesis four at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference in emotional intelligence among secondary school teachers in North-central, Nigeria based on age; there is a statistically significant relationship between age and emotional intelligence of secondary school teachers in North-central, Nigeria; there is a statistically significant relationship between years in service and emotional intelligence of secondary school teachers in North-central, Nigeria and that there is no statistically significant relationship between gender and emotional intelligence among secondary school teachers in North-central, Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that emotional intelligence training and workshop should be provided for teachers in respective of their personality demographic characteristics (Age, years of service and gender), also, government should provide enabling environment that will improve teachers’ emotional intelligence regardless their personality demographic characteristics.
Keywords: Teachers’ Personality, Demographic Characteristics, Emotional Intelligence, Secondary Schools, Nigeria.
Citation: Abdulkareem, B. H. (2026). Perceived Teachers’ Personality Demographic Characteristics and Emotional Intelligence in Secondary Schools in North-Central, Nigeria. J Psychol Neurosci; 8(2):1-5.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47485/2693-2490.1152