Relationship between emotional intelligence and communication skills in PhD and master’s students of Islamic Azad University

Background: communication skills are the ability to establish interpersonal associations with others. emotional intelligence is also the ability to increase domination over time and push towards goals and intentions. in the present study, the association between emotional intelligence and communication skills in phd and master’s students of islamic azad university was studied in 2017. methods: n a cross-sectional study, 321 phd and master’s students from islamic azad university, northern tehran branch, who had the inclusion criteria were selected using simple stratified random sampling method. the data was collected using standard brad berry and greaves questionnaire of emotional intelligence that has 28 items. the reliability of this questionnaire was confirmed using cronbach's alpha to be 0.88. to answer the questions, the likert spectrum scale was used. data collected were analyzed using ibm spss statistics for windows, version 19.0. results: participants were 154 (48.6%) male and 163 (51.4%) female. there was a significant association between students' communication skills and emotional intelligence (r=0.406, p<0.001), knowledge (r=0.276, p<0.001), managerial variables (r=0.378, p<0.001), social awareness (r=0.252, p<0.001), and association management (r=0.286, p<0.001). mean emotional intelligence of men was higher than that of women (p<0.015). the mean of emotional intelligence of phd students was also higher than that of master’s students (p<0.036). moreover, mean communication skills were found to be higher in men than in women (p<0.017). in addition, the mean of communication skills of phd students was observed to be higher than that of master’s students (p<0.024). conclusion: communication skills will increase through increasing students' emotional intelligent. communication skills and emotional intelligence are associated with gender and levels of education.