Social Intelligence of Principals and Its Relationship with Creative Behavior

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the level of the social intelligence among the male and female principals in TafilaGovernorate from the teachers views and its relationship with creative behavior.The sample consisted of 190 male and female teachers chosen randomly. For achieving the goals of the study, theresearchers developed two instruments, the first one was for social intelligence including 29 items, and the secondone was for creative behavior including 22 items distributed on five domains: flexibility, originality, fluency,sensitivity to problems, and risk acceptance.The results indicated that the level of social intelligence of principals was mid, and for creative behavior as well. Theresults also showed that there is a statistically significance positive correlative relationship between socialintelligence and creative behavior.