The Predictive Ability of Thinking Styles and Major Personality Traits on Emotional Intelligence among Sakhnin College Students

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of thinking styles and major personality traits on emotional intelligence among students at Sakhnin College, in its two branches, Qualification of Teachers and Engineering. The study sample consisted of (549) students, who were selected using the available sample method. The Thinking Styles Scale (Sternberg & Wagner, 1992), the Emotional Intelligence Scale (Wong & Law, 2002), and the Big Five Traits Scale (John & Srivastava, 1999), which was translated by Al-Azzam (2017) were used. The results revealed that the tenth predictive model for the independent variables (extraversion, openness to experience, extrinsic thinking style, hierarchical style, neuroticism trait, acceptability trait, local style, conservative style, proprietary style, chaotic style), with the active (predictive) variable, with a joint effect of the independent variables, explaining its amount (31.80%).