Emotional Intelligence in College Students

By : Achala Menon , Preeti Nakhat

Page No: 575-587

Abstract
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to know and manage one’s emotions. It is also about being able to handle relationships with empathy. Emotional intelligence can bring personal as well as professional success. The main aim was to know the emotional intelligence in college students. ‘Emotional Intelligence in College Students’ can be challenging as the students are in their teenage and can be indecisive about things. The tool used for this paper is Emotional Intelligence Scale by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Pethe, and Upinder Dhar and the sample population of this research is from the age group of 17-22 and 100 students filled the questionnaire. This tool is a five point Likert scale and has 34 questions. After collecting the data, analysis was done using Excel. Results show that 9 out of 100 people have Average level of Self-Awareness whereas the other 91 have high level of Self-Awareness. This shows that more people are self aware and are quite aware about the decisions they are making. 23 out of 100 people have average level of Emotional Stability whereas the other 77 have high Emotional Stability. 9 out of 100 people have average level of Self-Motivation and the other 91 have high level of Self-Motivation.

Authors :
Achala Menon : BA/BBA (Hons.) – School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Preeti Nakhat : Assistant Professor of Psychology – United world School of Liberal Arts & Mass Communication, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.02.19