Impact of gratitude on leadership style and social intelligence among teachers: An Indian Study

Abstract

Through the paper it has been explored as to weather that practice of gratitude by the teachers enhances their skills as a leader as well as making them more socially intelligent beings which inculcates intentionality and focus among their relationship with the students. The potential of practicing the idea of gratitude and its co-relationship with the social intelligence and leadership is seen from the quantitative study of about 150 samples (professors, teachers and Ph.D. scholars) taken from Delhi technological university, University of Delhi and other Universities. Tools used for survey are Gratitude Questionnaire ( Gq-6s), Multileader questionnaire ( Mlq-6s) and Trosmo Social Intelligence survey (TSIS). For analysis SPSS has been used and various test like Correlation, Mean and Standard Deviation and Chi- Square test has been performed on the data obtained from Survey. Significant correlation between gratitude, social intelligence and leadership has been found