COVID-19: Relationship between stress management and emotional intelligence in working environment

This study aimed to assess the association between emotional and stress intelligence in the work of health employees in times of pandemic. The main purpose of this study is to measure the level of emotional intelligence and stress to health workers during the pandemic and to interconnect between these variables. In the study, 150 health workers were attended by UCCK (University Clinical Center of Kosovo), from 63 men and 87 females. The sample is randomly selected, from two employee shifts. The methodology of this study is used quantitative methods. In this study two instruments were used, the one who measures emotional intelligence as well as the instrument that measures stress at work.The findings of this study have resulted that there is no significant link between emotional intelligence and stress at work during the pandemic time at Health Workers in UCCK, also from the results we understand that the level of emotional intelligence and the level of stress reaches the highest average in males than in women but that these differences are not significant.In the end, it can be said that the findings of the study will be important to health workers to take steps to stress management during the Covid-19 pandemic and apply different methods for the development of emotional intelligence during this time.