The moderating effect of emotional competence on job satisfaction and organisational commitment of healthcare professionals

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics: Means (M), Standard Deviations (SD), Cronbach α and Correlations

			Emotional Competence (EC)
Subscales of Job Satisfaction (JS)	M (SD)	α	AE	CP	PER	TE	PE	NE	RE	IN	OC
Self-realization	3.81 (.77)	.89	.16	.09	−.15	−.21*	−.18	−.00	.04	−.07	.28**
Resignation	3.51 (.71)	.78	.15	.20*	−.10	−.02	−.10	−.10	.20	.06	.21*
Salary	3.13 (.86)	.82	.05	.09	−.17	−.10	−.24*	−.08	−.02	.07	.41**
Workplace	3.53 (.77)	.87	.05	.04	−.13	−.16	−.17	.01	.05	−.11	.38**
Other reasons	3.48 (.71)	.77	.15	.11	−.12	−.05	−.18	−.06	.02	.06	.52**
Job Satisfaction (Total score)	3.49 (.65)	.95	.12	.10	−.17	−.12	−.16	−.09	.04	−.02	.40**
Organisational Commitment (OC)	3.33 (.72)	.91	.01	.02	.04	−.11	−.04	−.01	.00	.23*
M (SD)			4.41 (.63)	3.92 (.60)	3.65 (.59)	2.94 (.93)	3.46 (.60)	3.00 (.68)	3.47 (.67)	3.19 (.69)
α			.64	.73	.67	.83	.66	.82	.79	.64

Notes: AE: “attention to one’s own emotions”, CP: “clarity of emotional perception”, PER: “perspective taking”, TE: “trust in one’s own expressivity”, PE: “positive expressivity”, NE: “negative expressivity”, RE: “reflective handling of emotions”, and IN: “influencing one’s own emotions”
(i) *p < .05, **p < .01
(ii) N = 96
(iii) α = Cronbach α

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