Age as determinant of high emotional intelligence needed for construction project team motivation at a construction site in Cape Town

Clearance Certificate No | 2022_FBMSREC 031

A questionnaire with three parts, namely; The parts of the questionnaire were SECTION A - Biography, SECTION B – Likert scale and SECTION C – Open ended questions. Emphasis was put on developing an instrument with language and meaning relevant to the subjects of the research.

Trained research assistants (4) were used to administer the questionnaires in person to the respondents. The research assistants were trained in matters to do with ethics (only those people willing to participate) and helped to answer questions and provide clarify when the respondents needed help. In all 209 questionnaires were collected for analysis.

All the questionnaires were brought together for editing and cleaning, 8 of the 209 questionnaires were disallowed in the process. The questions were coded, captured on to an excel spreadsheet (the only one accessible to the researcher) which was ideal for the construction of the data into illustrations, graphs, histograms, pie charts and bar charts. The illustrations were considered necessary for effective (easy) comparison of the variables under study, from which interpretations and analysis of the data was made.