Creativity, Emotional Intelligence and Narcissism in Medical Practitioners and Educators.

Abstract

Helping professions necessitate a certain extent of emotional intelligence and creativity which have previously been linked with narcissism. Our study aims to illustrate a comparison between medical practitioners and educators aged between 28-65 years, with respect to creativity, emotional intelligence and narcissism. The Kaufman’s Domains of Creativity, Schutte’s Emotional Intelligence and Narcissistic Personality Inventory have been used to measure the aforementioned variables. Independent samples t-test computed using SPSS software, revealed minor difference in creativity and non-significant difference in emotional intelligence and narcissism of medical practitioners and educators. Medical practitioners’ emotional intelligence and narcissism (p<0.01) showed strong positive correlation and educators’ creativity positively correlated with emotional intelligence narcissism (p<0.01 and p<0.01, respectively) as per Pearson’s r correlation on SPSS software.