A dataset of the relationship between emotional intelligence and teamwork results of university students

The dataset explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and teamwork results of university students. This study was based on a survey of 372 university students in Vietnam. Four dimensions of emotional intelligence: emotional awareness, emotion's usage, emotional understanding and emotional controlling were measured with the 18-item scale designed by Mayer and Salovey (1997) and Schutte et al. (1998). Teamwork results was assessed by using the 6-item developed by Volet and Mansfield (2006). The respondent's characteristics also explored through the survey include: gender, what year students are from, how often they work in teams. The dataset was collected to study the direct effects of emotional intelligence on teamwork performance of university students and give some recommendations to managers, lecturers and university students to promote teamwork performance of university students in general and in Vietnam in particular.