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Organizational Justice: Personality Traits or Emotional Intelligence? An Empirical Study in an Italian Hospital Context
Author(s) -
Di Fabio Annamaria,
Palazzeschi Letizia
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2012.00004.x
Subject(s) - psychology , emotional intelligence , organizational justice , social psychology , big five personality traits , interpersonal communication , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , context (archaeology) , distributive justice , procedural justice , economic justice , organizational commitment , paleontology , perception , neoclassical economics , neuroscience , biology , economics , extraversion and introversion
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of personality traits and emotional intelligence in relation to organizational justice. The Organizational Justice Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire–Revised Short Form, and the Bar‐On Emotional Quotient Inventory were administered to 384 Italian nurses. The emotional intelligence dimensions explained a greater percentage of the incremental variance in relation to the four organizational justice dimensions (distributive: Δ R 2 = .11; procedural: Δ R 2 = .12; interpersonal: Δ R 2 = .19; informational: Δ R 2 = .16) with respect to personality traits (distributive: R 2 = .06; procedural: R 2 = .08; interpersonal: R 2 = .12; informational: R 2 = .09). The results highlight the role of emotional intelligence in explaining organizational justice, thereby offering new research and intervention perspectives.