Abstract
Purpose. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine community college full-time faculty's level of emotional intelligence (EI) to determine the level of capabilities for supporting students with mental health disorders. Methodology. This quantitative study used the Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory-Concise assessment to measure community college full-time faculty's level of EI and capabilities for supporting students with mental health disorders. Findings and Conclusion. The results from the analysis determined community college's full-time faculty's high scoring levels in the following EI competencies: emotional awareness of others, emotional self-management, and emotional self-control. The following EI competencies with low scoring EI levels were still likely to be useful: emotional expression, emotional reasoning, and emotional management of others. Emotional self-awareness was a low scoring competency that is not likely to be useful. The EI competencies emotional management of others had a strong and positive correlation and emotional awareness of others had a positive correlation to full-time faculty's level of capabilities for supporting students with mental health disorders. The overall sum of EI scores was likely to be useful in understanding what increases the capability to assist and support students with mental disorders. Recommendations. Conducted a study to explore useful practices for college faculty assisting students with mental health disorders. Provide mandatory mental health awareness workshops for faculty. Faculty emphasizes the resources offered by the student health center in their syllabi. Share the findings from this study to develop awareness about assisting students with mental health disorders.