01567nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002600118653002700144653001300171100003300184700003000217245011300247300001000360490000700370520096800377022001401345020001401359       2015                            d  c06/2015bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aconstructive thinking10aEmotional intelligence10amanagers1 aJosé Manuel de Haro García1 aMariano García-Izquierdo00aEmotional intelligence and transformational leadership in a sample of Spanish managers: An exploratory study  a71-810 v213 aIn this paper we analyze the relations between the dimensions of emotional intelligence (El), conceptualized as constructive thinking according to the cognitive experiential theory (Epstein. 1994), and the Transformational Leadership (TL) theory, based on Sashkin s model (1998), The results obtained after applying the Constructive Thinking Questionnaire by Epstein (2003). as a measure of EI, and the Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire by Sashkin (1998), as a measure of LT, to a sample of 190 middle managers in a large service organization, show the positive relationship between EI and TL, A stepwise regression analysis indicated that Efficacy and Superstition, two of the EI dimensions, have significant relationships with LT (28% of the explained variance). Implications of these results when designing development activities in the field of leadership are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)  a1134-7937  a2174-0437