Inteligencja emocjonalna a style radzenia sobie ze stresem instruktorów nauki jazdy

The aim of the study is to analyze the relationship between emotional intelligence of driving instructors with their styles of coping with stress. The study included 100 instructors, 70 of whom were men, whose age ranged between 23 and 69 years of age and 30 women aged between 25 and 55 years old. Instructors job experience was 8 years old. The study used Popular Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire by Jaworowski, Matczak et al. and Questionnaire and Coping with Stressful Situations by Strelau et al. The analysis revealed statistically significant differences between male and female instructors at the average results of the level of emotional control and understanding of emotions. At instructors-business owners it is noted signifi-cantly higher levels of all the features of emotional intelligence than at instruc-tors-workers. Driving instructors, both men as well as women achieved average results in applied styles of coping with stress. The highest level, instructors obtained in the style of coping with stress, concentrated on the task whose outcome was significantly different from other styles.