Emotional intelligence and tolerance for uncertainty as result predictors of military leaders professional activity

Abstract

In this article emotional intelligence and tolerance to uncertainty are considered as predictors of effectiveness of military leaders. We compare civilians (N=60) and two groups of mid-level military leaders (N = 62) classifi ed by experts as those that do not fully cope with a task and the those that cope with the task competently (evaluation is based on 1 year practice). It is determined that tolerance of uncertainty contributes to the effectiveness of military leaders through its influence on the variable of emotional intelligence (the predictor is internal emotional intelligence). In this way it is shown that the necessity of analysis of the psychological background in predicting the effectiveness of military leaders. Refs 32. Fig. 1. Tables 4.