Emotional Intelligence of Higher Secondary School Students of Sivasagar, District of Assam

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to one's ability to recognize and understand emotions, manage and control emotions, harness emotions to get motivated and to take appropriate action, understand the feelings of others and build relationships and negotiate conflict. Emotional intelligence is considered as one of the important aspects in one's life. In fact, it is believed that a person's Emotional Quotient (EQ) may be more important than their Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and is certainly a better predictor of success, quality of relationships, and overall happiness. Emotional intelligence is also important in maintaining one's physical health, mental wellbeing and good leadership. Therefore, the researcher has selected the present study. The objectives of the present study are to find out the levels of Emotional Intelligence of Higher Secondary School students of Sivasagar district of Assam and to compare the levels of Emotional Intelligence of (i) boys and girls students, (ii) the students of the Arts& Science streams and (iii) rural and urban higher secondary school students. The researchers selected a sample of 840 Higher Secondary school students from the Educational Institutions of Sivasagar district of Assam. For the present study Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory (MEII) developed and standardized by Dr. S. K. Mangal and Mrs Shubhra Mangal was selected and it was adapted by the researchers. It is found from the present study that the distribution of Emotional Intelligence scores of Higher Secondary school students of Sivasagar district of Assam is negatively skewed. There is no significant difference between mean MEII scores of boys and girls higher secondary school students. There is a significant difference between the Higher Secondary School students studying in Arts and Science stream as far as their Emotional Intelligence is concerned. There is no significant difference between the mean MEII scores of rural and urban Higher Secondary School students.