Relationships between leadership orientations and emotional intelligence in nursing students

Purpose: To describe the relationship between leadership orientation and emotional intelligence levels of nursing students.

Method: The study is a cross-sectional and descriptive correlational study.

Results: This study was carried out with 320 nursing students. There was a positive relationship between the mean scores for the Leadership Orientations subdimensions and the mean scores for the overall Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale and its subdimensions.

Practice implications: More studies are needed to examine the relationship between students' emotional intelligence and leadership orientations.