The Relative Contribution of Emotional Intelligence and Metacognitive Thinking to Decision-Making Styles among Teachers in Carmel Villages within the Green Line

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the relative contribution of emotional intelligence and metacognitive thinking to decision-making styles among a sample of 316 teachers from schools in Carmel villages within the Green Line. The study was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2023/2024. To achieve the study's objectives, a descriptive correlational methodology was employed to apply the scales of emotional intelligence, metacognitive thinking, and decision-making styles. The results showed a high level of emotional intelligence, metacognitive thinking, and rational decision-making style, while the dependent, intuitive, avoidant, and spontaneous decision-making styles were all at a moderate level. The results revealed a positive correlation between emotional intelligence and metacognitive thinking with the rational decision-making style, accounting for 52.3% of the variance explained for the rational style. Additionally, there was a negative correlation between emotional intelligence and metacognitive thinking with the avoidant style (4.3%), intuitive style (1.9%), spontaneous style (1.9%), and dependent style (4.6%) of decision-making among the teachers in the current study.